To encourage the development of regional conferences with similar objectives Leaders from Brethren churches throughout the world are welcome at the conferences.
 
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 100 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.

IBCM4 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).