Ministry Overseas

Bethlehem Baptist is committed to serving the community in which we live. To be a Christian is to have a proactive concern for and participation in the well-being of our society. We view the good news of Jesus Christ as an expression of practical love for others, not just a spiritual or intellectual philosophy. These are some of the initiatives members of our church are developing and participating in which involve people outside of New Zealand.

Fiji

Through the regular sending of teams of Church members we have been able to establish a long term relationship with specific villages and the people of Fiji.

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BBC has an active partnership with Mission Outreach including regular short-term mission opportunities to Asia. Mission Outreach is connected with Ethnos Asia. If you are interested in joining the numerous teams going out to different locations, please do not hesitate to contact the church office.

Find out more by going to their website Mission Outreach

Mission Statement: "Taking the love of Jesus to the darkest corners of secular society and discipling the global youth culture".

The call of Steiger's band - "No Longer Music" - is to go take the gospel to some of the most difficult places on earth. They tour the globe performing their uniue rock gospel into secular night clubs, satanist clubs and festivals to bring Jesus to people in a way they can understand - through music, and hard-hitting graphic images, Jesus Camps and other culturally relevant and non-traditional methods of evangelism.

Their main aim is to communicate the gospel in places that conventional missionary teams cannot reach - Islamic countries, terrorist clubs, squatter villages, anarchist festivals, brothels, music festivals and clubs. Steiger also hae a number of bases throughout the world where they evangelize and disciple the counter-culture youth.

Find out more by going to their website Steiger

Marine Reach ministers in a practical way to the poor of the South Pacific and the phillipines through medical (optical, surgical and dental) outreachs. Several members from BBC are in full-time service and BBC have a special relationship with this ministry; a number of youth/adult groups have been to Fiji for outreaches.

Find out more by going to their website Marine Reach

Mercy Link is a faith based humanitarian organization designed to link together similar organizations to serve the poor and needy. Serving out of Australia and New Zealand, this organization links together various organisations worldwide in order to help meet both the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children. Medical teams, dental teams, primary healthcare teams, construction teams, emergency relief teams with their equipment work together to serve the common goal of relieving the suffering of others.

Find out more by going to their website Mercy Link

tranzsend was born in 1885 under the name “The New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society” and was the overseas mission arm of the family of Churches known as the Baptist Union of New Zealand. Over the years tranzsend personnel have worked in the Solomon Islands, Fiji, France, Zaire, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Macau in a range of activities that has included community development, literacy, church planting, theological training, medical assistance, emergency relief, publishing, schooling, hospital development, handcraft industry, agriculture, saw milling, financing loan schemes and countless other work. They have done this with one overall goal in mind. “To share Christ and Serve the World”

Find out more by going to their website Tranzsend

"The Ruel Foundation was formed in 2000 after finding a child in the Philippines, named Ruel, dying from what was an easily treatable problem. Now the Ruel Foundation helps hundreds of children in developing nations all round the world who have been “forgotten” and need relatively minor surgery.

Find out more by going to their website Ruel Foundation