The Berachah Bible Church is in its 29th year of living up to its name, which means “blessing.”

Members of the congregation are literally going in all directions this summer, spreading blessings from vacation Bible schools in homes in Fayette County to places such as Siberia and Kazakstan, Russia.

Three high school and college girls are spending July visiting in homes and conducting Bible classes in various Fayette County homes; an exchange student from Siberia spent the school year in the area and has just returned home and will enter training to teach Bible studies.

The congregation gave her a lap-top computer and she will keep in touch through e-mail.

Also keeping in touch by e-mail are the associate pastor, Seth Wallace, and his wife, Leslie. They are in Israel for a month in a door-to-door evangelism trip. Mrs. Wallace is a teacher at Starr's Mill High School.

Another school teacher in the congregation is in China for a month on his second visit. Missionaries in China are not permitted to expound on the Bible, per se, but are allowed to assist the Chinese in practicing their English. You can either teach in a school or stand in the center of town at a “talking place.” The Chinese can come to you to practice their English and if, in the process, they ask any questions that pertain to religion, you are permitted to answer.

A retired military family in the church left two years ago to be missionaries in Costa Rica and a senior high student from the church is spending the summer with them. She is interested in entering missionary work and this is her second trip to test the waters.

Another student who has just graduated from high school is proficient in sign and is in the Philippines this summer teaching Bible studies at a school for the deaf.

A family of five just returned from a visit to Kazakstan, where they worked with missionaries serving there. In September Berachah pastor the Rev. Dr. Howard E. Dial and his wife, Beth, will head to Kazakstan where he will be teaching in a seminary for a month.

Other than that, the 300-plus members of the church are in their place each Sunday morning at 310 Corinth Road. Worship services are at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday School is at 11:15 a.m. Sunday evening worship is at 6 p.m. The church can be reached at 770-461-2466.

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