The purpose of the International Brethren Conferences on Mission (IBCM) is to bring together every four years the national leaders of local churches connected with the Brethren movement across the world for spiritual reflection, fellowship and, we pray, renewed experience of the Lord. The overall goal is the mutual encouragement of leaders in the movement in the different countries. The specific objectives of the conferences are:
  • To seek the presence and direction of the Lord together
  • To enable leaders from across the world to discover and encourage one another
  • To strengthen networking and fellowship
  • To raise awareness of the spiritual challenges of current trends and cultural developments
  • To share practical experience, ideas and methods
  • To encourage younger leaders
    • To encourage the development of regional conferences with similar objectives
Leaders from Brethren churches throughout the world are welcome at the conferences.
 
 
5th IBCM Conference 2011

The IBCM5 Conference is to be held (DV) on 13 - 17 June 2011 in France at Strasbourg on the Franco-German frontier. This is a change of the location originally proposed (Press release about the change of location). Conference brochure and booking form.
 





Thanks to the remarkable outreach of Brethren churches and missionaries over the last 150 years, there are congregations related to the Brethren movement in over 120 countries in the world. There are more than 20,000 such congregations with an attendance of perhaps 2 million people each Sunday. In some countries, these local churches have seen remarkable growth in recent years, both in terms of numbers of churches and overall numbers of people involved. In other countries, there is decline or numbers are small. Because of the nature of the movement, over the past generation international contacts have been lost and some national groups feel isolated. IBCM, and the regional conferences which it has spawned, are important means of rebuilding necessary international contacts for mutual spiritual blessing and encouragement.
 
 
 


IBCM 4 Conference PhotoIBCM4 Conference was held at Missionshaus-Bibelschule Wiedenest, Germany, on 25 June - 1st July 2007. About 420 national leaders met together, from 77 countries. Click here to download the conference News release as a pdf file ( 36KB). 
 
 
 
 
 
The IBCM3 Conference was held in Romania on 1 - 6 July 2003. It was attended by over 300 representatives from 57 countries. Click here to download a News Release about the conference as a PDF file (29KB).