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From the Field, News

December 12 2019

By: Leslie Peacock Caldwell

Short-term missions leads to long-term commitment for young couple

Matt and Molly Landry* sweetly smile at each other as they talk about the life changes they are facing. They discuss holiday plans, an upcoming family wedding and the Sundays that they will have left with their home church. The weeks ahead will inevitably...

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December 11 2019

By: Leslie Peacock Caldwell

Church gets creative with lattes for Lottie

If you’re heading to Mount Harmony Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, you don’t need to stop at a fancy coffee shop on your way to church. Multiflavored coffees and lattes will be ready for you when you arrive, served by smiling baristas. Donations at...

News, People & Places

December 10 2019

By: Rachel Cohen and Andrew Rivers

Christian Worship Around the World

Editor’s Note: Christians around the World is a series of articles in which we see churches in multiple nations pursuing the same mission: making disciples and planting churches among unreached peoples and places. You can view part one here, and part two here. Missionaries sometimes say that...

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December 9 2019

By: Jack Swift

First Person: Lottie’s impact a century later

If you hear about something enough times, the topic can become mundane. That’s what the name “Lottie Moon” became to me growing up in the church. I knew the name was associated with a Christmas offering, but I couldn’t tell you who she was,...

From the Field, News

December 8 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 8

Sidewalk Chapel Masuda San was a broken man when he showed up at Mark Bennett’s sidewalk chapel for the homeless in Tokyo, Japan. “It was a typical story. They come for the food,” said Mark, an IMB missionary. “But while they’re there, we give...

From the Field, News

December 7 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 7

Answering Life’s Questions Winters are brutal and days are dark where IMB missionaries Robert and Sharon Pinkston live in Quebec. Hearts are dark too. “There are 8 million Quebecois, or French Canadians,” Robert said. “Before we ever got here, we had heard that only...

From the Field, News

December 6 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 6

Sowing Seeds Donka knows what it’s like to wonder if life could be better than what she’s experienced. She lived most of her younger years under the stifling rule of communism. She’s lived many of her older years as a widow. And on top...

East Asian Peoples - Updates, News, People & Places

December 6 2019

By: Caroline Anderson

God’s Grace Overcomes Duty in Japan, Generations after World War II

The Walkers’ family history was intertwined with Japan long before they landed there. Cornelia’s father was an Army Air Force pilot who flew bombing missions in Japan during World War II. Carlton’s father was in the infantry and served in Japan after the war...

Giving, News

December 5 2019

By: Tess Schoonhoven

Churches fund missionaries through LMCO

Editor’s note: The average cost to support one long-term missionary is $62,000. This is a per person rather than per “unit” average as previously reported. This cost includes all forms of support, including salary, medical, language study, housing, visa, travel, ministry and more. We...

From the Field, News

December 5 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 5

A New Beginning For months, Paul and Robin Tinley have been watching people spill out of Venezuela and into Colombia. It’s about 5,000 a day — more than 3 million total — who have left their homes in hopes of escaping hunger, crime, unemployment...

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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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Guatemala

Is God leading your church to be on mission? Americas Connect Guatemala is a great place to start. Learn More.

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South Asia

Be a strategic frontliner sharing the gospel. Meet basic physical, educational and spiritual needs. Strengthen local believers' evangelism methods. Learn More.

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Healthcare

Medical and other health care volunteers are needed to partner with field personnel and local believers in ministering to refugees in Eastern Ukraine. Learn More.

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Missionary Profiles

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Mid-term / American Peoples

Brandi & Amanda

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Long-term / Ukraine

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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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