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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 missionary “units” through LMCO

“Cooperative missions has a name and a face — actually, tens of thousands of them,” Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board (IMB), said. “They are the names and faces of Southern Baptist missionaries who have been sharing the Gospel among the nations...

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...

From the Field, News

December 4 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 4

Catching a vision … Hun Sol has a lot of favorites. He loves seeing students sent out through the missions program he runs in South Korea. He loves seeing them work alongside IMB missionaries to take the hope of Christ to parts of Asia...

From the Field, News

December 3 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 3

Gospel on the Move It takes tents, sleeping bags, and a lot of food for Peter Station* to get out in the remote areas of his East Asian country — the places where the herdsmen live. He throws all his gear in the back...

From the Field, News

December 2 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 2

A Season of Change It’s tough to live where Kristin Luttrell and Rachel Sebastian serve as IMB missionaries in Mexico — there’s not much they can change, practically speaking. They can’t change the fact that people there do back-breaking work in the fields. They...

From the Field, News

December 1 2019

By: IMB Staff

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 1

Here to serve … IMB President Dr. Paul Chitwood knew missionaries faced challenges in taking the gospel to the unreached. But on a recent trip to East Africa, every ride down a dusty road and every walk down a city street was a reminder...

News

November 27 2019

By: Catherine Finch

Chinese government designates Lottie Moon’s church as historical site

The name, “Lottie Moon,” is known by many in the Southern Baptist world. From the Woman’s Missionary Union Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® to movies, books and documentaries detailing her life of service, Lottie Moon is often hailed as a “missionary hero”. Lottie Moon’s legacy will...

From the Field, News, People & Places, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Updates

November 26 2019

By: Janet Cannon

She Tells Her Thief a Story

One of the street children in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a boy of about fourteen years, ran by Maman Charite* and tried to snatch her purse. He missed, but after a few steps, he turned around to run back and try again....

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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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Pepper Family

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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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