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We believe every church has a role to play in reaching every nation with the gospel.

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Because of your generosity and support, millions are hearing the gospel and thousands are being discipled.

Thank You!

-Dr. Paul Chitwood

Featured Projects

CUBA TO THE NATIONS

Help Cuban Baptists take the gospel to the unreached world.

GOAL: $1,350,000
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LOOKING FOR LYDIA: WOMEN REACHING WOMEN

Equip South Asian women to become bold disciple-makers.

GOAL: $105,000
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CENTRAL ASIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

Provide operating expenses for the Central Asia School for the Deaf.

GOAL: $30,000
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KOREAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS

Fuel a missionary movement from Korea to East Asia.

GOAL: $750,000
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CHURCH PLANTING IN FRANKFURT AND BEYOND

Train new church planters to reach diverse Frankfurt communities.

GOAL: $1,188,200
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MACEDONIAN PROJECT

Open doors for a unique group of candidates to immediately deploy to the mission field.

GOAL: $46,780,000
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ONE CRISIS RESPONSE - YEMEN

Provide food, shelter, and medicine to the displaced and most vulnerable.

GOAL: $615,000
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PRESCHOOL BREAKS DOWN WALLS

Provide quality preschool education, opening doors for gospel sharing in a spiritually oppresive country.

GOAL: $1,500,000
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ARNETT SCHOLARSHIP TO ADVANCE MINISTRY

Honor the mission legacy of Randy and Kathy Arnett by funding a scholarship for academic and ministry excellence for West Africa students to continue their education at the masters and doctoral level.

GOAL: $10,000
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Featured Trips

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Panama

Come to Panama and work alongside local believers to share the love and truth of Jesus Christ through prayer walking, gospel distribution and working... Learn More.

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Central Asia

Spend a semester engaging university students and using your English as a means of building relationships. Learn More.

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Italy Youth Camp

Spend a week at a camp setting where you will interact with jr high and high school students through English, Sports and meals. Learn More.

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Latest Articles

People & Places, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Featured, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Updates

August 19 2019

By: Toni Braddix

Ebola Deja Vu in Africa

My family lived in Zimbabwe in the 1980s when the world was first becoming aware of AIDS. Many Zimbabweans didn’t believe the disease was real. They thought AIDS was an invention of either a government that wanted to control their lives or of Western...

News, Training

August 16 2019

By: Mark Edworthy

For the Sake of the Call

As we close out nearly three decades on the mission field and approach an imminent transition back to the United States, I have become more reflective and thoughtful about the process that God used to lead us and sustain us overseas for so many...

News

August 13 2019

By: Chuck Lawless

First-Person: Churches & missionaries

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) — All of us need to develop more relationships with missionaries. Here’s why: 1. God has called us to reach the nations, and we’re more likely to do so when we know missionaries. An internet story or a journal article...

News

August 12 2019

By: Julie McGowan

MacDonald Elected IMB VP of Marketing, Communication

International Mission Board trustees voted to elect Mark MacDonald as the mission organization’s vice president of marketing and communication during a virtual meeting Monday, Aug. 12. MacDonald currently serves as strategic communication catalyst for the Florida Baptist Convention in Jacksonville, Fla., and executive director...

People & Places, Southeast Asian Peoples - Updates

August 9 2019

By: Caroline Anderson

The Posture of Prayer: A Look at How Buddhists Pray

Dozens of wizened men and women circled a massive Buddhist stupa as an act of worship and prayer. I walked in the opposite direction, counterclockwise, so I could see the faces and postures of the worshipers. These Buddhists moved their lips silently as they...

Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Updates, People & Places

August 9 2019

By: Rachel Cohen

Two Complications to Know About the Coptic Church in Egypt

By the time Mark reached the shores of Alexandria, he had come a long way. Physically speaking, the apostle had likely sailed south from Rome, landed in Libya, and trekked through to Alexandria—Egypt’s burgeoning city of modernity and intellectualism. But spiritually, Mark had journeyed...

East Asian Peoples - Updates, News, People & Places, People Groups

August 8 2019

By: Stella McMillian

From desert to ocean: East Asian believer celebrates faith

There are times when the vast lostness in East Asia feels abstract, and others when the statistics fade, replaced by real stories of people I love, like my close friend Karen.* She heard the gospel for the first time after she moved to my...

Disciple Making

August 8 2019

By: Greg Handley

The Real Source of the Church’s Renewal

Reader beware: if you like tomato sandwiches, J. D. Greear thinks you have serious issues, borderline demonic in nature (32). It’s obvious Greear needs to come to my parents’ house. When tomatoes, toasted bread, and mayonnaise unite in our home, it tastes nothing of...

Central Asian Peoples - Featured, Disciple Making

August 8 2019

By: Sam Martyn

Key Principles for Disciple Making in Central Asia

On a cool Sunday afternoon in early spring, I sat conversing over a glass of tea with a handful of Central Asian brothers and sisters following our worship gathering. A new believer named Alp* asked how, once we become believers, we are able to...

Disciple Making

August 7 2019

By: Shirley Ralston

Caring for Missionaries through Connection: The Three Cs

A perfect illustration of “out of sight, out of mind” is that of the missionary serving overseas. We have heard this refrain many times in our conversations with missionaries in our church’s care ministry. The Cambridge Dictionary describes it this way: “not able to be seen, and...

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Missionary Profiles

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Long-term / Africa

Harrell Family

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Long-term / Africa

Pepper Family

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Long-term / Africa

Bethany Amber

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Mid-term / American Peoples

Brandi & Amanda

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Long-term / Ukraine

Ingrid

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Long-term / Africa

Haun Family

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Where Can I Go?

Americas

The American peoples have a rich heritage of missions, yet more than 550 million American people are living without Jesus. Learn More

Central Asia

All of the Persian and Turkic peoples who call Central Asia home are unreached. Learn More

Deaf Peoples

Most of the 35 million Deaf people around the world have never seen Jesus's name signed in their language. Learn More

East Asia

East Asian peoples represent a fourth of the world’s population. Learn More

Europe

It seems impossible to reach the 99 percent of Europeans who don’t have a relationship with Jesus. Learn More

North Africa And Middle East

North African and Middle Eastern peoples live in a place where history blends with the modern world. Learn More

South Asia

From the heights of the mighty Himalayas to the crystal-clear water of the Maldives, South Asia is both awe-inspiring and heart-wrenching It has the largest concentration of non-Christians on the planet. Learn More

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is home to 2,728 people groups and the world’s largest Muslim population. Learn More

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan African peoples have a growing Christian population, yet still nearly 1,600 unreached people groups remain in sprawling cities, barren deserts, rain forests, and tropical islands. Learn More

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