Resources — New Rankin book: To the Ends of the Earth … New issue! Minimagazine News — Quotable: Tsunami aid is making a difference Speaking of missions — Quotable: An urgent need for workers in South Asia … Illustration: Start of a house church … Missions by the Book: We are to call people from among all nations Forward to a friend

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New Rankin book
To the Ends of the Earth

In his new book, Empowering Kingdom Growth: To the Ends of the Earth, IMB President Jerry Rankin shares the IMB's vision for bringing Christ to the world and provides a tool for local churches to use in preparing for missions work. Read more.

Order copies for you, your church's missions leaders or someone you know who is interested in serving in missions.

New issue! Minimagazine

Can we finish the task? What will it take? Are the numbers of baptisms and new churches growing? How is God reaching the world? How are missionaries trained to serve overseas? Find the answers in the latest issue of the eight-page minimagazine To the Ends of the Earth. Subscribe now or order the summer issue. 

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News

Quotable: Tsunami aid is making a difference

“God is leading people to himself and church is being established among peoples who've never had a chance to hear the gospel. Thank you so much. Keep coming. Keep praying.” — Don Dent, IMB regional leader for the Pacific Rim , speaking on tsunami relief to the Southern Baptist Convention

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See what other inspiring reports you missed at the Southern Baptist Convention.

Read missions news from the convention.

Order Waves of Prayer: A Seven Day Prayer Guide, for tsunami relief work in the Pacific Rim . FREE. Limited quantities.

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Speaking of missions

Quotable: An urgent need for workers in South Asia

“Even though we have 344 workers serving right now in South Asia, we need at least 1,000 to begin to engage the massive lostness here. Right now, there's only one Southern Baptist worker for every 7 million people. ... For every square mile in South Asia, there are 873 lost people.” — David Garrison, IMB regional leader for South Asia, speaking to the Southern Baptist Convention via videophone

Watch excerpts from Garrison's report:

• “South Asia is the greatest concentration of lostness on the earth …”
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• “Personnel in South Asia discover God has been at work …”
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• “Please continue to support the work in South Asia …”
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Illustration: Start of a house church

Cliff Satterwhite, South Carolina Baptists' disaster relief coordinator, drew applause from the Southern Baptist Convention audience when he told this story: A couple of volunteers on a recent team helping tsunami victims were walking through a Buddhist village and a boy chased them down. He said, “You need to come to my house. My father has something to tell you.”

The relief workers followed the boy through the village to his house. Through an interpreter, Satterwhite said, the father told them, “You have continued to come and come, team after team, to love us and care for us. I want to give my house to be a house church.”

“Of course,” said Satterwhite, “our volunteers explained he did not have to give the house away. He needed to live in that house, but that we would definitely dedicate that house as a house church.”

Read other reports of tsunami relief in South Asia and the Pacific Rim.

Missions by the Book: We are to call people from among all nations

“Through him and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.” (Romans 1:5, NIV).

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