{"id":8473,"date":"2025-12-09T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/winter-olympics-2026-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:48:15","slug":"hope-and-light-calendar-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/hope-and-light-calendar-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope and Light &#8211; Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-0\">\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-help-write-the-next-story-of-hope\">Help Write the Next Story of Hope<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, hundreds of thousands of people do not know the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just that they haven&#8217;t decided to follow Him\u2014<em>it\u2019s that they haven&#8217;t even heard of Him<\/em>. Whole communities are living without a church, without a Bible, and without a single Christian neighbor to tell them the truth of the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where you come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you flip through your 2026 <em>12 Stories of Hope &amp; Light<\/em> calendar, you are seeing the result of missionary presence. You are seeing lives transformed because someone was sent to tell them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you partner with the International Mission Board, you help the good news reach every corner of the world. Your generosity equips missionaries to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Find the lost in hard-to-reach places.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help the hurting with compassion and care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Share the hope of the gospel clearly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiply the church among the nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>100% of every dollar you give goes to sending and sustaining missionaries on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will you give today? Help us write the next story\u2014so that every nation, tribe, people, and language can hear the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    window.rd_script_args = {\"form_id\":\"f1794223-6f81-4ab9-aa42-de02abf70515\",\"organization_id\":\"41567\",\"simplified\":\"true\",\"lmcid\":\"\",\"p2p_tracking_code\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/raisedonorsprod.azureedge.net\\\/embed\\\/embed.js\"};\n<\/script>\n\n<div class=\"  simplified raise_donors_form_container\"\n     id='imb-give-form' >\n    <script src='https:\/\/raisedonorsprod.azureedge.net\/embed\/embed.js' data-rd='f1794223-6f81-4ab9-aa42-de02abf70515' data-organizationId='41567' data-lmcid=''><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/generosity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}