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General, News

June 15, 2021

By: Leslie Peacock Caldwell

‘Together, we press toward the vision,’ Chitwood assures Southern Baptists

During a global season that crippled businesses, closed borders and devastated families, God was powerfully moving, IMB President Paul Chitwood reported to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. Even as missionaries and other nations continue to face...

General, News, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Featured, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Updates
IMB President Paul Chitwood and his wife, Michelle, visit George Smith and his wife, Geraldine, in the hospital. George Smith contracted COVID while on the mission field in Uganda.

June 15, 2021

By: Catherine Finch

IMB missionary on brink of death from COVID healed through power of prayer

George Smith’s COVID-19 test came back positive. The diagnosis began a months-long battle of prayer and physical challenges for IMB missionary George Smith and his wife, Geraldine, in Uganda. George contracted the virus in January 2021 while attending a training event in a small...

General, News

June 15, 2021

By: Scott Barkley

Southern Baptists appoint 64 missionaries in Sending Celebration

International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood made a confession to the thousands gathered in the Music City Center on Monday (June 14). As 2020 dragged on, he said, challenge after challenge made the IMB’s goals seem further and further beyond reach. “I questioned at...

General, News
The 1,500 Southern Baptists in attendance at the 2021 IMB dinner enjoyed fellowship around the dinner tables and heard stories of God's faithfulness from IMB missionaries.

June 14, 2021

By: Catherine Finch

IMB dinner includes celebration and challenge

At the International Mission Board dinner during the SBC annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Southern Baptists heard stories from IMB missionaries of God’s faithfulness to reach the nations and encouragement to focus on the Great Commission found in Scripture. “God is using you, God is...

General, News
IMB President Paul Chitwood and NAMB President Kevin Ezell welcome participants to the Send Conference 2021. (IMB photo)

June 14, 2021

By: Natalie Sarrett

Send Conference launches with thousands called to be ‘Together on Mission’

Worship led by Michael W. Smith and CeCe Winans, a rousing sermon from Tony Evans and a concert by Crowder kicked off the Send Conference 2021 Sunday night (June 13) at Music City Center. Actually, the event started a little earlier, with a powerful prayer...

European Peoples - Featured, European Peoples - Updates, General, News, Student
Students meet for a game night near the university in the Balkans. This summer, volunteers will help the team open a new office space closer to campus that will serve as a student center. They will host more game nights, offer study space and will be a “hang-out” for students.

June 11, 2021

By: Karen Pearce

The students are coming

School is back in session. Life is returning to normal in many parts of the world, and IMB student ministries are ready to get back to business. Although visa restrictions are still a barrier in some places, Europe is beginning to open. Southern Baptist...

General, Giving, News
Houston's First Baptist Church not only takes reaching the nations seriously, but they also take their call to reach the nations that have come to Houston seriously.

June 10, 2021

By: IMB staff

First-time givers help push missions offering past goal

Over 430 first-time givers contributed to Houston’s First Baptist Church’s missions offering this year. HFBC had a goal to give $1,400,000 to missions through the offering. Once it was counted, gifts totaled $2,628,946 — a new record for the church and more than $1,200,000...

General, News, Student

June 9, 2021

By: Myriah Snyder

Students mobilized to ‘go change __________’s world’ at REV 7:9

The International Mission Board is introducing the first annual REV 7:9 conference to be held on Dec. 29-31, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. “Go change __________’s world,” will be the theme of the conference, a missions movement for 18–25-year-olds. The blank is intentionally placed in...

General, News

June 9, 2021

By: IMB Staff

IMB ramps up efforts to reach ‘500 new missionaries’ target

In January 2020, IMB President Paul Chitwood announced 2025 Targets built around the International Mission Board’s vision and mission to engage unreached people and places over the next five years. The first of these 2025 targets is “send an additional 500 missionaries.” The IMB...

From the Field, General, News, Prayer Resources

June 8, 2021

By: Catherine Finch

Pastor on house arrest faces new trial for sharing faith

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on global persecution, leading churches to pray for the persecuted church. Raymond*, a church planter and pastor, went to jail for sharing his faith in 2008, and now faces the possibility of more time in...

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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

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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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