Well, 2010 is almost half over.  It has been a great year so far for BBBC Foundation.  We began the year with ten girls under sponsorship at the Girls Home in Koligram, Bangladesh.  We have now increased that to eighteen.  This is awesome.  During 2009 BBBC Foundation was able to send $4,160 for the entire year to support these girls.  I am so excited to report that through June 13, 2010 we have already been able to exceed last years full amount in only the first six months of 2010.  So far, we have been able to send $4,970 to support these girls in their education and standard of living needs.  PRAISE THE LORD!

I want to thank you for your continued support of these girls.  It is such a blessing to me and I hope and pray a tremendous blessing to you as well to know that you are making a difference in the life of a child in Bangladesh.  If you have friends or family that would like to share in this ministry, please do not hesitate passing on my information or if you would like me to mail you some information to give to others, I will gladly do that as well.

Fourteen-year-old Nayami, standing in the bathroom doorway during our tour of the Koligram Girls’ Home.

Left corner: Karen Smith. Right corner: Britney Johnson. Karen is introducing the Johnson girls to the girls in Bangla.

The problem in a place like Bangladesh is not the lack of people with which to share the gospel. The opportunity is there. The success of sharing the gospel can be huge. All signs say that there should be a great reaping of the harvest. All the conditions are right. No, there is nothing wrong with the harvest.

There is one problem: Harvesters.

There aren’t enough. There has never been a day like today. There are now 500 churches: 200 established and 300 outstations.

However, there are only 200 pastors. Workers are needed.

The way to get workers means training young men and ladies first. But, to train them they need help to be able to study. It takes only $600 per student per year. That includes housing, food, books, and outreach.

If your Sunday School class, youth group, co-workers or church would like to help with sponsorships they can be sent to:

BBBC Foundation
1810 Bluestem Ln
Salina, KS  67401

God bless you,
Donny R. Johnson
President, BBBC Foundation

The first quarter of calendar 2010 has been a great year already for the children of Bangladesh. BBBC Foundation has now increased its sponsorship to 16 girls at the Girls Home in Koligram, Bangladesh. Thank you all for your continued support of the children in Bangladesh.

And earlier this year the state youth director of the Kansas Assemblies of God went to Bangladesh and held a youth convention training session for the children at the orphanage Home of Hope. Larry and Sharon Smith’s newsletter describes the trip below:

Darin Stroud, the ministries director for Kansas and Travis Dummond with the Kansas Youth Alive visited Bangladesh for a time of show and tell.  They were able to help share some of the insights they have from years of experience putting together Youth Conventions.  They shared for two days some of the principles and ideas for conducting youth meetings and then for two days helped in a small youth conference of about 300 young people at the Home of Hope.

Our young people did a great job.  Leaders are raising up.  Plans are already in the works for nine divisional youth meetings in the next few months.  There is an emerging Bangladesh of young people with new hopes and plans.  This is great day for Bangladesh.

Day 4 we spent at the mission center and shopping. We left for the mission center around 9:00 a.m. and spent the morning touring the school and mission offices. The school teaches over 700 students up to fifth grade. The mission center also houses the Bible school, which includes 60 students but will be expanding in November with the completion of a new building. We also met the national youth director, Phanel, and the national children’s director, Francis, and toured MediaOutreach and BMM.
After that we grabbed lunch at A&W, did a bit of shopping to pick up some last minute gifts, and then came back to the flat to nap and visit with friends for our last afternoon here.
We spent our last dinner at the American Club with the Smiths and then headed to ZIA International for our flights to Hong Kong and Beijing.

Day 3 started early. We left the guest house at six thirty in the morning for a five-hour drive to Koligram, where the girls’ hostel we funded was built. The journey involved a bumpy three-hour drive to the Ganges River, a ferry ride aross the Ganges, a bumpy two-hour ride to another smaller river (or finger of the Ganges), and a boat ride from the main road to the village.
When we arrived in Koligram it was about eleven thirty, so we were served a quick tea in the pastor’s quarters and then escorted to the dedication program, where some of the girls sang and danced and the pastors and village dignitaries spoke. It was primarily in Bangla, but we still enjoyed it.
After the ceremony the girls showed us their dorm rooms and gave me and my younger sisters makeovers, complete with dots and lip liner. Despite the language barrier the girls were extremely friendly and tried to communicate with the little English they knew. We took pictures with all of them on the roof of the hostel and then made our way downstairs to the lunch they had prepared for us.
The lunch was the first true Bangla meal we ate the entire trip—rice, lentils, fish, eggplant, chicken, and rice pudding. We were offered fish head but politely declined. After lunch we had to leave and get back on the road for the trip home. It was a late night, and we crashed easily.

Day 2 we slept until about 8 and then drove down to old Dhaka, which was one of the poorest areas we’d seen. We took a quick ride in a rickshaw, which is the local taxi system. They’re essentially two seater benches pulled by bicycles, which wouldn’t have been too bad if my dad hadn’t taken up three-quarters of the bench. Talk about hanging on for dear life. They dropped us off near the river where we took a short banana boat ride in one of the most polluted rivers we’d ever seen, and then the boats dropped us off in the center of the market place where we stopped for a quick snack of flat bread and coke.
Then we grabbed a quick lunch at KFC and went to take an afternoon nap.
After that we headed out to the Home of Hope again for a drama put on by the students. It was the first production they’d put on of this kind, and it was amazing. I’ve never seen a more exciting performance of Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. The place was packed out. After the performance we met some of the kids and spent some time talking with them. The couldn’t believe Britney was the same age as a lot of them because she was heads taller than them. One boy, Luke, even said, “Oh, she’s very big!” That night we went back to the flat for dinner and an early bed.

We made it to Bangladesh! We got in at 1 am here and immediately went to bed. We then got up at 7 am and headed to the Home of Hope for their “Sunday” morning service. We spent the morning there doing a basic tour of the facilities. They are nearly self sufficient in their rice production, fish production, and chicken and egg production. They house over 250 kids ages five to eighteen. We left there and grabbed lunch at the American club and then that afternoon we did a bit of shopping at the local chain called Aarong. We each bought a shalmar, the garb of the culture which includes pants, a shirt dress, and a scarf. That evening was spent catching up on sleep and eating dinner at Pizza Hut with the missionaries Larry and Sharon Smith.

Keep the Johnson family in your prayers! We leave at six tomorrow morning from Kansas City for Bangladesh. We’re scheduled to arrive at two in the morning on July 9, which will be two in the afternoon central time. That’s over 24 hours of travel time, so be sure to include patience in your prayers for us (especially for me).
God’s doing wonderful things in Bangladesh with the help of Larry and Sharon, and we can’t wait to spend time with them this week. I’ll keep you posted on each day’s events and upload pictures when we return.
-Briana

Welcome to the BBBC Foundation website. We’re new around here and just beginning to post things to the page, so please be patient with us. We have included a history of the BBBC Foundation on the History page for those of you who would like more information about our organization.

For more information on being involved with the BBBC Foundation, please e-mail Donny Johnson at bbbcfoundation@gmail.com.