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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...

East Asian Peoples - Featured, East Asian Peoples - Updates, From the Field, General, News, People & Places

June 7, 2021

By: Caroline Anderson

IMB joins Japanese Christians for Olympics outreach, despite reduced crowds

Every four years, athletes and spectators descend on the cities hosting the Olympic games. Historically, volunteer teams from U.S. churches have also journeyed to the Olympics and played active roles in both the Summer and Winter Olympics ministry strategies of IMB missionaries and national...

East Asian Peoples - Featured, East Asian Peoples - Updates, From the Field, General, News
Connect 2020 vision trip to Tokyo, Japan. Prayerwalking Olympic venues.

June 7, 2021

By: Caroline Anderson

Texas-based ministry partners with IMB to virtually mobilize workers for Japan

In June and July, International Mission Board missionaries in Japan are partnering with Mobilize Japan in a virtual mission trip involving participants from across the U.S. Mobilize Japan was founded by four graduates of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – Brit Redfield, Ariel Lee, Ines...

General, News, Prayer Resources

June 6, 2021

By: IMB staff

Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

Today, Sunday, June 6, is the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. This day, approved by the Southern Baptist Convention, is a call for believers to increase their awareness of and pray fervently for the global persecuted church. In 2020, more than 340...

General, News

June 4, 2021

By: IMB Staff

Current event prayer guides made available through IMB

The International Mission Board is providing free, full-color prayer guides on recent current events — one for the COVID-19 crisis in India and another for the situation in the Middle East. The guides are provided as downloads and also as presentation graphics that can...

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

June 3, 2021

By: Drew Moss

Church Connections initiative forges relationships in Alabama

Editor’s note: The International Mission Board recently initiated Church Connections to facilitate connections between IMB missionaries and churches who do not have direct contact with a missionary. Church Connections efforts began in 2020 with a pilot involving 10% of IMB’s missionaries. April 5 was...

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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

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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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