Happy 30th Anniversary, BESI!

Barbara and Harold Smith

Thirty years ago today on March 11, 1986 (BESI) Believer's Express Service, Inc. was incorporated as a 501 (c) (3) at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa Falls, GA. We were in our early 40s preparing to join HCJB World Radio to serve in Quito, Ecuador. The Lord had another plan. We received a letter from Rich and Kathy in Bukavu, (Zaire) D. R. Congo asking if we would help them begin an independent ministry...how could we say no to our brother. Thirty years later, we are still standing by our dear brother and sister-in-law as they reach out in love to precious souls in Congo and now to a new people in Rwanda! To God be the Glory!

BESI's early Board of Directors: 

Lawrence Trumbower; 

Kathy and Richard McDonald; 

Barbara and Harold Smith

and Sharon and Gary Bowers

Barbara and Harold Smith while students at
Toccoa Falls College
preparing for the mission field in Quito, Ecuador
with our dear friend, Morton Dibble, head of the TFC print shop.
Morton printed all BESI's booklets, newsletter, prayer letters, etc.

Sorry for the quality, but just had to include those
early happy days in Bukavu...a tribute to
Fred and Millie Bahler, Kathy's parents, who pioneered
ministry in Bujumbura, Burundi where Kathy was born and
grew up in a grass hut with dirt floors.