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European Peoples - Featured, European Peoples - Updates, From the Field, General, News, Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Featured, Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Updates

January 26, 2021

By: Grace Thornton

Many Syrians lose everything but find hope along refugee highway

Audrey Chism’s* prayer was simple—a brief blessing over the meal their Syrian friend Amira* had prepared. But when she finished, Amira was wiping tears from her face. “It was the first time we had met her, so I didn’t say anything at first—we just...

American Peoples - Featured, East Asian Peoples - Featured, News

January 25, 2021

By: Caroline Anderson

IMB partners with 140 international Baptist conventions in fulfilling Great Commission

The International Mission Board’s 175 years of ministry among the nations resulted in the formation of 140 Baptist conventions and unions in 73 countries. These conventions and unions are reaching their own people and are sending their own missionaries to spread the gospel. These...

General, News, Training for churches

January 22, 2021

By: Todd Lafferty

Prepare yourself and your churches for the missionary task

We might not know what to expect for 2021, but we do know that God is still moving and Southern Baptists need to be prepared to answer the call to reach the nations. At the IMB, we’ve been so grateful to hear from individuals...

American Peoples - Featured, American Peoples - Updates, From the Field, General, News

January 21, 2021

By: Jennifer Waldrep and Guy Key

God uses Brazil’s Brandão as multiplication maestro

“Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown” (Matt. 13:8 NIV). Multiplication is inherent to biological life. Thriving beings, such as cells, plants and people, multiply. Likewise, thriving disciples and churches multiply....

General, News

January 20, 2021

By: IMB Staff

IMB to host virtual Sending Celebration, Feb. 3, 2021

IMB will host another virtual Sending Celebration to allow Southern Baptists to collectively rejoice in 33 missionaries being sent to the nations. Join us on Feb. 3, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. EST on imb.org, Facebook live or on the IMB Advance the Kingdom app....

General, News, Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Featured, Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Updates

January 20, 2021

By: Grace Thornton

More than a decade after Arab Spring, gospel moves amid staggering ongoing trauma

Drew Carson* has a hard time believing it’s been 10 years since the Arab Spring started on the western side of Northern Africa and swept all the way across the Middle East. Part of that, he said, is because not much has changed since...

General, News

January 19, 2021

By: IMB Staff

Churches celebrate good news from LMCO receipts

Churches are celebrating record-breaking Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® goals and reporting higher than expected giving to the annual offering for international missions. This good news comes during months of financial crisis for many families, indicating their faithfulness to the Great Commission task, no matter...

General, News, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Featured, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Updates

January 15, 2021

By: Sub-Saharan Africa team

Eight-year-old Benny illustrates missionary life

Benny is eight years old and lives with his missionary family in Sub-Saharan Africa. At school, Benny was given an assignment to tell about his community. His IMB family came to mind and he drew this picture of a Christian telling a Muslim about...

From the Field, News, South Asian Peoples - Featured, South Asian Peoples - Updates

January 14, 2021

By: Hindu-background believer

Born in darkness, live in Light

I was born into darkness. The interesting thing is that I did not really know it was dark. I don’t think you can comprehend the difference between darkness and light until you have truly seen light. Thankfully, my life story does not end in...

American Peoples - Featured, American Peoples - Updates, General, News, Training for churches

January 11, 2021

By: Leslie Peacock Caldwell

IMB missionaries equip churches to stay on task during Missions College event

Online participants representing Southern Baptist churches joined IMB leadership and missionaries in the eighth annual Missions College, Jan. 6-7. The two-night event, hosted by IMB’s American Peoples Affinity, included encouragement to stay focused on the task of reaching the lost through short-term missions opportunities...

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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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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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