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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

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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Panama

Come to Panama and work alongside local believers to share the love and truth of Jesus Christ through prayer walking, gospel distribution and working... 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

Training

June 25 2019

By: Jonathan Martyn

Salvation‘s Ultimate Goal: The Baptist Faith and Missions

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment in a series of articles exploring the Baptist Faith and Message with the aim of showing the relevance of each doctrine for global missions. See part one here. (Unless otherwise noted, all Scriptures cited below are from the English Standard Version.) The...

Arts & Culture

June 24 2019

By: Brian Gossett

What Can Christians Learn from Designers to Better Share the Gospel?

Reaching the lost. Having a quiet time. VBS. Christians use an abundance of their own lingo, often condensed into acronyms that send the uninitiated searching for a decoder ring. Yet they are not alone; many professions create their own jargon. Their insider language describes...

Training

June 21 2019

By: Mark Edworthy

For the Sake of the Call

As we close out nearly three decades on the mission field and approach an imminent transition back to the United States, I have become more reflective and thoughtful about the process that God used to lead us and sustain us overseas for so many...

People & Places

June 21 2019

By: Lucy Campbell

Around the World in Eighty Ways: A Transportation Photo Gallery

Whether “metro surfing” in one of the world’s megacities or bumping along dirt roads, a missionary’s daily commute can look (and smell) very different from typical transportation in America. Sometimes it’s eyes squeezed shut and a prayer on your lips as your bus careens...

Church Planting

June 20 2019

By: Tony Merida and Scott Zeller

Church Planting and Disciple Making: How Mission Makes Us More Like Christ

The priority of disciple making is undeniable in the Bible. Jesus made it abundantly clear that we are to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:19). Put one way, the heart of the church’s mission is making disciples who make disciples. So where does...

Disciple Making

June 19 2019

By: Nick Calhoon

Seasons of Waiting: What to Do When God’s Call and Reality Don’t Seem to Line Up

You’re preparing to move your life and family overseas in obedience to the Great Commission. Your house is sold, tickets are booked, and bags are packed. Then, out of nowhere, you get the unsettling news that you’re not going. This would be a hard...

Training

June 18 2019

By: Chuck Lawless

Global Missions through the Bible: Joshua

Editor’s Note: The history of missions is replete with examples of God using his Word to call his followers to engage in his redemptive work around the world by praying, giving, going, and sending. The aim of this article series (part one here) is to help...

Arts & Culture

June 17 2019

By: Edward Smither

The Monks Who Used the Arts in Missions

When we speak of Celtic Christianity, often large oversized crosses, mystic spirituality, and colorful characters like St. Patrick come to mind. In my study of the Celts—particularly the missionary monks who left Ireland to evangelize the rest of Europe—I’m struck by their ability to...

People & Places

June 14 2019

By: Katlyn Pedroza

‘I’m Not Enough’: A Missionary’s Battle with Insufficiency

One Saturday when my husband was out of town, our baby girl was recovering from hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and I had an impossible decision to make. Her fever spiked a few minutes before our middle daughter needed to be at her best friend’s birthday party....

Church Planting

June 13 2019

By: Doug Ponder

Why More Aren’t Missionaries: What Happens When We Lose the News Worth Sharing

For maybe the first time in our history, we have “more fully-funded open missionary positions than we have candidates in the pipeline.” On one hand, this is an occasion to praise God for the generous giving of our churches, which continues to support faithfulness to...

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Missionary Profiles

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Long-term / Africa

Harrell Family

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Long-term / Africa

Pepper Family

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Long-term / Africa

Bethany Amber

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Mid-term / American Peoples

Brandi & Amanda

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Long-term / Ukraine

Ingrid

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Long-term / Africa

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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