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News — Annual report: Key results on the field ... Librarian guides underground worship movement ... IMB trustees adopt budget, appoint 67
Praying — Create a virtual prayerwalk
Going — Missionary kid serves in village ministry ... Gentrys follow their prayers to Ukraine
Giving — Video: “Someone Told Me” ... Use a life income gift to care for loved ones
Resources — Mini-mag: Helping those in need when the rest of the world has moved on
Speaking
of missions — Missions by the Book: Declare His glory among the nations ... Quotable: For 13 people groups, their first church ... Illustration: They could have gone anywhere
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| As part of an IMB engagement team, David and Tami Wood are researching more than 80 different people groups throughout West Africa to determine which have the greatest need for evangelical work. (IMB) photo |
News
Annual report: Key results on the field
Southern Baptist missionaries and their international Baptist partners last year
-- baptized more than 475,000 new believers
-- started nearly 23,500 churches
-- began church planting for the first time among 104 people groups.
Read more.
Librarian guides underground worship movement
Mary Malone* isn't just a librarian. For more than 20 years, Malone has been sorting books and helping the students at a seminary in West Africa research their assignments. But her after-hours gig involves a bit more risk.
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| IMB trustee Ken Whitten, from Tampa, Fla., challenges fellow trustees to increase their personal commitment to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Last year, trustees contributed more than $100,000 to the offering. (IMB) PHOTO by Bill Bangham |
Should we pray for God to lift persecution?
IMB trustees adopt budget, appoint 67
IMB trustees meeting Oct. 30-Nov. 1
-- adopted a $290 million budget
-- appointed 67 missionaries
-- heard the latest global results.
Read more.
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Praying
Create a virtual prayerwalk
Download photos of those featured during the Week of Prayer for International Missions Dec. 3-10 to create a virtual prayerwalk.
Create a PowerPoint for a truly virtual walk or print photos and create interest centers throughout the church to which participants can walk and pray.
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| Missionary kid Meredith Queen, age 8, polishes the toenails of a Sereer-Palor girl near their homes in Senegal, West Africa. (IMB) Photo |
Going
Missionary kid serves in village ministry
Meredith Queen's favorite dress is splattered with red and pink splotches, but she doesn't mind. That doesn't keep the lively 8-year-old from wearing the dress again as she and her parents visit a village to share Jesus with Sereer-Palor people of Senegal.
Missionary service can be a family experience. Find out more.
Gentrys follow their prayers to Ukraine
When Virgil and Loys Gentry first began praying for an unreached people group in southern Ukraine, they had no idea God would soon call them to live among this people.
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Giving
Video: “Someone Told Me”
Noe Manual lost his leg and most of his family during the war in Angola. For years, he lived a life of sadness. Then one day someone told him the story of Jesus. Share his story with your church.
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More than 2,300 churches have registered their goal for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering? Is your church one of them?
Use a life income gift to care for loved ones
A life income gift can generate income for the donor. Payments, however, can be directed to beneficiaries of your choosing, such as elderly parents, siblings or other loved ones.
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Resources
Mini-mag: Helping those in need when the rest of the world has moved on
The latest issue of “To the Ends of the Earth” focuses on how Southern Baptists respond when disaster strikes -- and how they continue to help long after first-response agencies have finished their work.
Take a look.
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Speaking of missions
Missions by the Book: Declare His glory among the nations
"Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods" -- I Chronicles 16: 24-25, NKJV
Quotable: For 13 people groups, their first church
"For these 13 people groups, for the first time in their history there is a church representing our Lord and Savior to an unreached people that have never heard the Gospel, don't have a Bible in their language and have never known what church looks like." -- Gordon Fort, International Mission Board vice president for overseas operations
Illustration: They could have gone anywhere
The Jahanka of West Africa number only about 60,000, with fewer than 20 known followers of Jesus. But they are one of the "pivotal peoples" of the area, according to IMB regional leader Randy Arnett, because they are the Muslim religious teachers who send imams to the villages of many other peoples. "They are the missionaries; they are the solid Islamic people of West Africa," Arnett said. But a Southern Baptist missionary couple living in a Jahanka village is winning friends. One Jahanka villager told a visitor, "They could have gone to any (people), but they came to the Jahanka. They could have gone to any village, but they chose our village. They have come with a message from God, and we're waiting for them to be able to speak our language so we can hear this message that they have brought to us."
Look at products you can use to share the needs in West Africa with others in your church.
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