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| Southern Baptist missionaries and their
overseas partners baptized 510,357 believers in 2003. |
Celebrate
Overseas baptisms pass historic 500,000 mark
• 510,357 baptisms
• work among 192 new people groups
• engagement of 146 unreached people groups with a total population of
more than 359 million
• 16,721 new congregations
God’s
spirit is moving dramatically and people are responding to
the gospel in an unprecedented manner, International Mission
Board Senior Vice President Avery Willis reported to trustees
during their February meeting. Read
more about the 2003 annual report.
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AIDS
Use
this interactive map
You’ve
heard a lot about AIDS in the United States and Africa, but
did you know it’s found worldwide? Use
our interactive map to find our how many people are living
with AIDS in China, what groups of people have been particularly
hard hit in Iran and the Commonwealth of Independent States,
which region of the world has the fewest cases of AIDS and
more.
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Giving
Falling
dollar hits missionaries on its way down
The steep decline of the U.S. dollar’s
value abroad may help American exports and trade deficits,
but did you know it also increases the cost of doing international
missions? Read
more.
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Going
Volunteers
urgently needed to prepare for Olympics
Southern Baptist volunteers are badly needed
this spring — some as early as March — to help prepare for
ministry opportunities during the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, Greece. Read
more.
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These
teens are “real Christians”
Leaving
Brazil for stateside assignment last year, missionary Carolyn
Kirk was concerned about leaving the teens she had been teaching.
Nine of them had just been baptized. Kirk prepared some ongoing
material and left it with G., then just 15 and a new Christian.
“On our first Sunday back,” Kirk says, “we were greeted by
an 80-year-old woman on the steps of the church who gave the
wonderful news that `those adolescents are still firm — those
are real Christians!’ As I met with them, I marveled to hear
them each quote long, memorized passages from the Psalms and
pray out loud. G. had ingeniously found ways to teach the
group. A., a 12-year-old of whom I had almost despaired before
I left, had been ‘licked into shape.’”
Find
more reports on answered prayers on CompassionNet.
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