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News — Loving the street kids of Dakar ... IMB trustees appoint 87, praise learning center and SBC relief efforts
That all peoples may know Him — Web exclusive! Five poster choices ... Video: When Ministry Begins
Praying — Traveling mercies
Giving — Q & A: Including trusts in estate plans
Resources — Africa T-shirts ... Join God at work map
Speaking
of missions — Missions by the Book: Let the little children ... Quotable: "We cannot ignore the darkness" ... Illustration: Clean floor, clean bed, clean clothes
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| The children's choir from First Baptist North Spartanburg (S.C.) kicks off the International Mission Board appointment service Sept. 13. |
Loving the street kids of Dakar
You remember the day your mother brought you to this place. You were 5 years old. You won't see her again for a decade or more -- if ever.
IMB trustees appoint 87, praise learning center and SBC relief efforts
Trustees of the International Mission Board, meeting in Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 11-13,
• appointed 87 new missionaries ;
• approved a study concluding that the organization's learning center provides "sound theological training" to new missionaries;
• heard how nearly $4 million has been utilized for hunger and general relief projects;
• heard about new initiatives in medical missions and disaster relief.
Read more.
God's kingdom is bigger than East-West clash
God works through many cultures, but He is above and beyond culture. His sphere of influence is the globe God works through many cultures, but He is above and beyond culture. His sphere of influence is the globe.
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That all peoples may know Him
Web exclusive! Five poster choices
Your state Woman's Missionary Union will mail Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® posters featuring a West African girl to churches next month. But imagine, for instance, that you want to use a poster for a men's prayer breakfast.
Download and print a poster featuring an African man, woman, boy or group -- whatever best fits your audience.
Video: When Ministry Begins
When does ministry to an unreached people group begin? For the Sokoto Fulani, it began when members of Wickland Baptist Church in Bardstown, Ky., began to pray for them. See for yourself.
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Did you know that many of the videos for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering season are available in both seasonal and nonseasonal versions to make it easier for you to promote missions year-round?
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Praying
Traveling mercies
Forget war and chaos. The most frequent risk many missionaries face is the hair-raising challenge of getting from one place to another. Pray for them as they travel.
Pray for other daily needs.
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Giving
Q & A: Including trusts in estate plans
How much do you know about trusts and estate plans? Take our quiz to discover if you know the answers.
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Resources
West Africa T-shirts
Missionaries and volunteers serving in West Africa wear these T-shirts reminding them "No sacrifice too great in our passionate pursue to make Christ known." You can wear the same shirt as you engage your church in praying for West Africa during the Week of Prayer.
Join God at work map
Display this fact-filled map in your Sunday School or mission group classroom to remind members to pray for the 1.5 billion lost in South Asia.
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Speaking of missions
Missions by the Book: Let the little children
"He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 'Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.'" -- Mark 9:36-37, NIV.
Quotable: "We cannot ignore the darkness"
"After many mission trips, we have seen the darkness that blankets Western Europe, and we cannot ignore their need for the Gospel. Therefore, in the footsteps of (the apostle) Paul, we go to Rome, Italy." - Jason Cooper, new missionary
Learn more about needs in Western Europe.
Illustration: Clean floor, clean bed, clean clothes
As the "talibe" street boys in the Yoffo district of Dakar, Senegal, trickle back from begging, they get a warm welcome from Southern Baptist missionaries Cal McIntire and David and Cheryl Johnson, along with student volunteers from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. The Southwest volunteers, assisted by some laughing talibe boys and other neighborhood kids, set about hauling buckets of gravel and broken rock into the dormitory to sprinkle across the dirt floor. Then they spread sand and wet concrete over the top. When it dries, the boys have a clean surface on which to lay the new foam sleeping pallets their visitors have brought. Later, the boys drop their filthy clothes into buckets of boiling water and bashfully submit to medicated treatment of the scabies that ravages their skin. The volunteers fight back tears as they gently apply the soap and medication to the boys' disfigured skin. When they're done, they hand out new clothes and bags with toothbrushes and other basics.
Find out how you can help as a volunteer in West Africa.
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