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

October 29, 2020

By: Hugh Johnson

Missionaries pray for eternal life for worshipers of Saint of Death

Casting a long shadow across one of Mexico City’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods stands a seven-story tall image of Santa Muerte – the Saint of Death. She takes the form of a human skeleton clad in black plastic sheeting with arms outstretched, inviting...

Central Asian Peoples - Featured, Central Asian Peoples - Updates, From the Field, General, News

October 27, 2020

By: Madeline Arthington

First Person: Finding Meaning in a Broken World

My first Sunday back after quarantine, I sat in a daze on the pew in my Central Asian church. The IKEA Christmas star still hung suspended from the ceiling above the baptismal in the corner. To my side, the audio-visual equipment that made our...

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

October 26, 2020

By: Jennifer Waldrep

Southern Baptists help Brazilians hone English skills for gospel advance

What’s a good way to learn a language? Converse with a native speaker. What’s a good way to advance the gospel? Invest in a missionary. What can catalyze both objectives? A global pandemic, apparently. When COVID-19 grounded IMB missionary Caron Johnson from travel (which...

General, News

October 22, 2020

By: IMB Staff

Flow of Grace

Giles and Wana Ann Fort, both missionary medical doctors, went to Zimbabwe in 1952 with the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) to meet physical and spiritual needs in the name of Jesus Christ. Four of their five sons–David, Gregg, Gordon, Giles, and...

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

October 20, 2020

By: Sarah Alexander

Latin Americans share vision to reach Central Asia

As a young adult Didxali De Leon* devoured missionary stories. Her heart resonated with the passion of Hudson Taylor for the Chinese, with the determination of Elisabeth Elliot in the jungles of Ecuador. But the thought that Didxali could be a missionary seemed more...

General, News

October 19, 2020

By: IMB Staff

Every Church. Every Nation. Summit: The Future of Missions

On October 29, 7-9 p.m. EST, please join the IMB for a virtual event highlighting the global, cultural, and spiritual realities that are impacting and shaping the future of international missions. Paul Chitwood: President, IMB Advance the Kingdom: The Revelation 7:9 Vision Samuel Chiang:...

From the Field, General, News, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Featured, Sub-Saharan African Peoples - Updates

October 15, 2020

By: Tessa Baker

Believers in Madagascar partner to craft Bible stories in local dialects

In the last ten years, believers in southwest Madagascar have crafted over 100 local dialect Bible stories that are now told over the radio each Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Missionaries secured a weekly 20-minute radio segment for the stories when COVID-19 prevented churches from...

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

October 13, 2020

By: Caroline Anderson

Missionaries in Sub-Saharan Africa commit to reach 55 people groups in five years

While more Christians live in Sub-Saharan Africa than in any area of the world, 27,000 people in the region die every day without knowing Christ. Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the fastest-growing populations in the world and one of the highest rates of child...

News

October 12, 2020

By: Caroline Anderson

Mississippi Baptists pledge $1 million to international missions

The Mississippi Baptist Convention has committed to donating $1 million to the 2020 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) for international missions. Dr. Shawn Parker, the executive director-treasurer for the Mississippi Baptist Convention, said the convention has underspent its budget due to the cancellation of...

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

October 12, 2020

By: Oscar Tortolero

IMB recognizes National Hispanic Day, October 12

The IMB has been impacting Hispanic and Latin countries for more than 160 of our 175 years. For many of those years, countries in South America, Central America and the Caribbean were the mission fields for IMB. The first Southern Baptist missionary arrived in...

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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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