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Going

In Peru, Kathryn Oder meets daily with Maria Asterias Rames to read Bible stories to her as she knits. Like this young boy, others stop to hear the stories as well. (IMB) Photo by Kyle Kurlick

Summer workers lift the darkness

Most people in the small Peruvian village of Santiago de Chocorvos had never had the chance to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ -- until three summer missionaries arrived.

Learn how you can participate in REAP South in Peru.

From left: Kentucky State University volunteer team members Mikel Robinson, Todd Quire, Kim Sangtai, Quentin Roberts and Cornelius Gibson say a prayer at the start of their prayerwalk around the inner city of Lima, Peru. (IMB) Photo by Kyle Kurlick)

Student volunteers help spread the Gospel
in Peru’s hopeless city

With the help of a volunteer team including students from Kentucky State University, Quentin and Gina Roberts are reaching out to drug addicts and prostitutes in Lima, Peru's inner city.

Learn more about missions opportunities for collegians.

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News

Peruvian pastor steps up to the plate

Pepe Luis Flores Varas is not only a pastor but a church planter who has helped start five Baptist churches in Lima, Peru.

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Giving

Video testimony: Cal McIntire, missionary to Senegal

"If God calls you to a place, it doesn't matter how hot it is, it doesn't matter how hard it is, God will give you whatever it takes to be able to do it." See more of Cal's testimony.

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Resources to download

Do you still need resources for the Week of Prayer Dec. 3-10, but haven't ordered them yet?  Check out what's available online.

Send an e-card

Use a West Africa e-card to invite church members to participate in your missions conference or prayer breakfast or to give to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®. 

Have you registered your church's Lottie Moon goal?

There's still time to register and receive a free West Africa storying cloth. You can also find out what other churches have set as their goal

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Speaking of missions

Missions by the Book: There is no other God
"Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other" -- Isaiah 45:22, NIV.

Quotable: They’ve given their lives

"For more than 150 years, a stream of God-called, Bible-believing Southern Baptists have given their lives and those of their children in West Africa – and they’ve made a difference. Vast areas of West Africa have heard the Gospel and believed. But a great darkness remains in that region and around the world. How does Jesus ask you to respond?" -- Randy Arnett, leader for International Mission Board work in West Africa

Illustration: Possible through the power of God

In sub-Saharan West Africa, this day is like any other. Women pound millet in large wooden mortars. Men beat cloth, smoothing it flat, with hefty mallets. Children laugh as they play on the dusty streets. It’s market day. People buy and sell bright fabrics, plastic containers, used clothing and produce while greeting visitors and talking with friends. Just behind the market stands an imposing mosque. In its courtyard, several elders, most in long robes, listen to a teacher, just as they might any other day. But today the teacher is an IMB worker who is not teaching from the Quran, but from God’s Word. The West African language that he has struggled to learn flows smoothly from his lips. The men listen intently as he reads from Genesis. Occasionally a listener makes a clicking sound, a West African way of acknowledging truth and agreement. This village had forbidden Christians to live among its people. But it has been on the missionaries’ hearts since the first time they prayerwalked through its dark streets with more than 20 mosques. Now they are welcomed. Why is a place that has been deemed unreachable now approachable? A few weeks ago, the Holy Spirit impressed the missionary that there was work to be done in this place, so he went. He boldly explained to the village chief that he was a teacher of God’s Word and wanted to come each week and pray for the people. The chief gave permission, and three weeks later the impossible became possible.

See more stories from West Africa.

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