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April 6, 2020

By: IMB staff

Prayer Guide for Kids

This might be a scary time for you. Some missionary kids around the world might be afraid, too. One of the best ways we can take care of each other during a scary time is to pray for one another. Here are two ways...

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

April 6, 2020

By: Hugh Johnson

Missionary thanks Southern Baptists for support during pandemic

I woke up confused on Sunday morning. The bedside clock read 6:00 a.m., but my iPhone said 7:00 a.m. I had forgotten it was Sunday. And I had definitely forgotten that in this part of Europe the clocks had “sprung forward” at midnight on...

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April 2, 2020

By: Ann Lovell

Send Relief names Francis Horton as VP over international operations

Send Relief announced Francis K. Horton III as its new vice president overseeing operations outside North America on Thursday, April 2. Horton brings more than 20 years of international missions and relief experience to the role. The announcement comes one month after the International...

From the Field, News, South Asian Peoples - Featured, South Asian Peoples - Updates

April 1, 2020

By: Caroline Anderson

Gospel advances in South Asia despite travel restrictions

Dasya* was at the end of his rope. He needed to provide for his family and had no means of doing so in his village. He walked three days on foot, sleeping on the side of the road, to search for work in a...

General, News

March 31, 2020

By: IMB Staff

Downloadable Tech Backgrounds for April 2020

You can pray for missions with these custom backgrounds for your computer and mobile devices. Using IMB photos from around the world, each background is designed to focus your attention on an area of the world in need of prayer. Check back each month...

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

March 30, 2020

By: Jennifer Waldrep

Missionary family spreads hope

Sarah McNeill sensed a city-wide quarantine coming. Her preparatory grocery run included school supplies since her kids would transition to learning at home. She put printer paper and poster board in her cart and, with an idea blooming, added yellow, blue and red tissue...

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March 27, 2020

By: IMB Staff

Coronavirus Response: Praying through the crisis

Will you take time now to pray for our missionaries around the world who are serving on the frontlines during this coronavirus epidemic? Download the prayer guide and distribute it to your church families. Together we will share the hope of Jesus Christ with...

East Asian Peoples - Featured, East Asian Peoples - Updates, From the Field, News

March 26, 2020

By: Stella McMillian

Unexpected blessings

When Cate’s* family took a short trip away from their home in East Asia recently, she never imagined they’d be unable to return for several months. But while they were gone, coronavirus overwhelmed areas near their home. Resulting travel restrictions meant Cate and her...

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March 25, 2020

By: Julie McGowan

IMB postpones volunteer trips through June 30, personnel ‘shelter in place’

International Mission Board senior leaders have directed IMB missionary personnel around the world to postpone hosting any ministry volunteer groups through June 30, leaders announced Wednesday, March 25. Consideration of missionaries hosting volunteer teams beyond June 30 will be reviewed on May 1, leaders...

American Peoples - Featured, From the Field, News

March 25, 2020

By: Hugh Johnson

Mexican couple partners with missionaries after finding Christ

Jesús (pronounced Hey-sus) and his wife, Anjela, live in a rough neighborhood where drugs, alcohol and idolatry are pervasive. Like most in Mexico City, they were Catholics devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe and to Santa Muerte, the “Saint of Death.” After many years...

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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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Guatemala

Is God leading your church to be on mission? Americas Connect Guatemala is a great place to start. Learn More.

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South Asia

Be a strategic frontliner sharing the gospel. Meet basic physical, educational and spiritual needs. Strengthen local believers' evangelism methods. Learn More.

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Healthcare

Medical and other health care volunteers are needed to partner with field personnel and local believers in ministering to refugees in Eastern Ukraine. Learn More.

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Missionary Profiles

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Mid-term / American Peoples

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Long-term / Ukraine

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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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