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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.

Thank You!

-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

Disciple Making

May 27 2019

By: Allison Rushing and Jared Kennedy

5 Ways to Teach Kids about Missions

Each week in our children’s ministry, we gather our elementary-age kids for a time of worship. It includes praise songs, hand motions, call-and-response Bible and catechism memory, creative Bible teaching, and a time of prayer. We enjoy each of these assembly gatherings. We cherish...

Northern African and Middle Eastern Peoples - Updates, People & Places

May 24 2019

By: Madeline Arthington

The Difference between Shiite and Sunni Muslims and Why It Matters

Lutherans and Baptists are basically the same. Wrong, and both groups would likely agree on that point. Neither is it true that all Muslims are the same. Of the over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, around 85 percent of them are a sect...

Church Planting

May 23 2019

By: Clint Clifton

Who to Pick and Who to Pass By: Choosing the Right Partners in Mission

About ten years ago, I led a small team into an unreached village in a country I was unfamiliar with. I couldn’t find an interpreter, so the first day we made virtually no progress. In the midst of my discouragement and frustration, however, two...

Disciple Making

May 22 2019

By: Erik Odegard

10 Ways to Identify and Develop Missionaries from Your Student Ministry

Student pastors have a unique opportunity to raise up missionaries from within their student ministries. During the 2019 Student Pastor Summit at Midwestern Seminary, I had the opportunity to address a room chock-full of student pastors on the topic of how to help students...

Podcast

May 21 2019

By: International Mission Board

Daryl Cox on Life and Missions in West Africa

Daryl Cox sensed a call to ministry as a young child, but did not realize that meant international ministry until he heard a missionary speaker share in a chapel service at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. That very evening, he shared with his wife...

Deaf Peoples - Updates, People & Places

May 21 2019

By: Madeline Arthington

How to Turn 3 Don’ts into 3 Do’s When Interacting with Deaf People

I took my first college class when I was twelve years old. It was an American Sign Language class, a language I was intrigued and excited by. As the years passed, I grew up, got a job, and eventually moved overseas. I forgot almost...

Church Planting

May 20 2019

By: Matt Tyler

Why You Should Not Call Me a Missionary

I’m not a missionary. I live in a different country than the one I grew up in. I’m learning a new language. I live here in order to share the gospel and encourage church planting. But I’m not a missionary. Or, at least, I...

Training

May 17 2019

By: Jon Hirst

Adding ‘Kingdom’ to Innovation in Missions

All around us worlds are colliding, and it can be hard to keep up. As sacred and secular, global and local, IQ and EQ all swirl around in the alphabet soup of new terms, we struggle to make sense of a world that is...

Church Planting

May 16 2019

By: Dayton Hartman

The Church’s Mission to Make Culture

The late founder of one of my alma maters was fond of saying, “If it’s Christian, it ought to be better.” This wasn’t an arrogant claim that Christians possess superior talents or abilities. It was just his way of saying that faith in Jesus...

Disciple Making

May 15 2019

By: Joel Williams

Multiplying Missions Efforts: Raising Up Short-Term Mission Trip Leaders

Leading a short-term mission trip is both exciting and intimidating, but in the midst of it all, mission leaders should seize the opportunity to prepare their teams for more than just the trip at hand. Short-term mission trips provide an opportunity and a training...

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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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