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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.

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-Dr. Paul Chitwood

Featured Projects

GLOBAL BIBLE FUND

Provide Bibles and Scripture portions to people groups in every part of the world.

GOAL: $4,018,759
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GUTENBERG II

Dramatize the Scripture into a modern movie that speaks to the Muslim heart.

GOAL: $7,340,000
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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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GROWING KIGOMA BAPTIST HOSPITAL

Impact the lives and health of countless people in rural Tanzania.

GOAL: $618,000
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LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING®

Giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® enables IMB missionaries to take the gospel to unreached peoples around the world. Every dollar you give makes a difference, because 100% of the money collected goes to the work of reaching every nation.

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Featured Trips

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Costa Rica

Americas Connect is a first step toward deeper missions engagement. 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

Church Planting

February 21 2019

By: Will Basham

Small-Town Planters, Your Labor Is Not in Vain

I marveled at how much the village in northern Mexico reminded me of my own small town in West Virginia. It was my first time out of the country, and while it was definitely a culture different than my own, I couldn’t help noticing...

Disciple Making

February 20 2019

By: Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley

6 Ways Pastors Can Preach for the Nations

Godly preachers desire to support missionaries. What do missionaries most want the churches back home to do? We might make a list of actions such as praying, giving regular financial support, sending care packages, helping missionaries when they’re on furlough, visiting them on the...

Disciple Making

February 20 2019

By: Nick Drake

Make It Personal: The Key to Short-Term Missions Partnerships

When my wife and I served as missionaries, volunteer teams were one of the greatest encouragements and blessings to our disciple-making and church-planting efforts. In the five-plus years we served, we worked with more volunteer teams than I can count.  Those teams played a...

Training

February 19 2019

By: Mark Harrison

Local Churches Can’t Do Everything

It’s been said that opportunity knocks but once. But if you’re a missions leader at a local church known for funding mission projects and partnerships, opportunities seem to knock just about every day. Worthy opportunities can come in all shapes and sizes: a long-standing...

Arts & Culture

February 18 2019

By: Max Power

The 6 Best Foreign Films for Family Movie Night

I recently had a magical experience watching a subtitled foreign film with my three-year-old daughter. I was reading the subtitles aloud to her as she watched the visuals with me, and it felt like I was reading a living storybook to her. A mere...

People & Places

February 15 2019

By: Karen Pearce

Modern-Day Shipwrecks on Malta’s Shores

In the back corner of a large public cemetery on the island of Malta, there is a plot of unmarked graves. Unadorned cement slabs with no indication of who lies beneath. Nearby is a piece of paper in a plastic sleeve tacked to a...

Disciple Making

February 14 2019

By: Keelan Cook

Cross-Cultural Missions: Crossing Streets and Crossing Oceans

It started off just like any other airport run I made with a short -term team. When I was serving as a missionary in West Africa, we did these runs all the time. One of our local church partners from the States sent over...

Church Planting

February 13 2019

By: Joe Holland

Am I Called to Plant a Church?

While every Christian is called to mission, not everyone is called to fulfill the mission in the same role. Not all of Christ’s apostles wrote books of Scripture, for example. And only some of them are said to have pastored churches. Yet each had...

Disciple Making

February 12 2019

By: Molly Wall and Jason Madryk

8 Ways to Change the World around Your Dining Room Table

Praying for the world isn’t something reserved for church leaders or missionaries. It should be at the heart of every fellowship, including people of all ages, in large and small groups, and as often as possible. And the power of praying for the world...

Training

February 12 2019

By: Chuck Lawless

The Baptist Faith and Missions: Why Theology Matters for Missions

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles exploring the Baptist Faith & Message with the aim of showing the relevance of each doctrine for global missions. Say the words doctrine and theology, and the responses you’ll get will vary. Some people...

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Missionary Profiles

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Long-term / Africa

Harrell Family

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Pepper Family

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Bethany Amber

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Mid-term / American Peoples

Brandi & Amanda

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Long-term / Ukraine

Ingrid

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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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