Thank you so much for your generous support in equipping Chinese believers to go to the nations. Your prayers and sacrificial gifts have been instrumental in setting up the world’s first global Chinese Baptist mission-sending agency!! Your partnership enables us to mentor new Chinese missionaries and train them to engage other cultures with the gospel in practical but life-changing ways.

HuaYu International Missions (HIM) was established in 2020 through the partnership of several Asian conventions and IMB missionaries, using DUMPLING funds. In partnership with you, HuaYu has been able to:

• Interview, select, and approve 29 local missionaries, called Global Missionary Partners (GMPs).
• Send 20 of these GMPs globally to work with international Christian workers. The other nine are in pre-field training.
• Recruit GMPs from four Asian countries.
• Support the first batch of GMPs as they complete their first term. Seven have applied to return to their assignments long-term!
• Use the DUMPLING partnership as seed money, along with funds from local churches, to help send these brothers and sisters to the field!

God is Working. In addition, three other Baptist Asian Sending partners have also joined in sending GMPs. Combined with these other partners, God is doing miraculous things:

• 50 GMPs vetted and sent
• 27 candidates in training
• 14 countries receiving our GMPs
• 16 mission teams impacted
• 3,179 full gospel presentations
• 1,950 who accepted Christ as Savior
• 48 baptized
• 23 new Bible study groups

Plans to Reach the Nations. We are praying about sending 75 new GMPs from Asia Pacific Rim countries worldwide to reach unreached people groups (UPGs) and unengaged, unreached people groups (UUPGs). So far in 2023, 12 have been sent, and 27 are training and should be sent before Summer. In addition, our national partners are launching “Embrace,” a 6-month mission program to disciple local believers to engage in God’s Great Commission. Finally, a new agency called HuaYu 2.0 seeks to send GMPs from closed countries.

Please continue to pray for the DUMPLING project:

• Pray for the seven GMPs applying to return for long-term mission assignments. Ask God for guidance for those families and the selection committee.
• Pray for the 27 currently in training to be sent by the end of Spring 2023. Pray they will absorb all the learning they need to in order to communicate Christ effectively.
• Pray for more Asian churches to “own” the Great Commission and partner with us in sending laborers into the harvest!

Thank you so much for your generosity. Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” (Matthew 9:37). Your ongoing giving helps ensure that even more workers will be sent out into the harvest.

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Because of your faithful giving and prayers, long-term workers are being sent to those isolated from the gospel.

In the past two years, this project has helped set up a new agency and send 14 new long-term workers in partnership with local Asian churches. A third batch of Asian long-term workers is preparing to go, and as many as 24 will join us for training later this year. We now have local long-term candidates being vetted and sent from five Asian countries representing three local Baptist conventions. All of these are going for 2-to-3-year terms. This year marks the first time this fledgling agency resends one of those long-term workers to serve alongside an IMB team.

In addition, a second local agency is now being created to send long-term workers from “closed” countries that cannot have Baptist conventions. This agency has already approved three families to serve as international missionaries, and several more have signed up. We also partner with local sending agencies from other closed countries to help equip their long-term workers. Crossing cultures is difficult, as is working with an international team. We help these new missionaries thrive in field partnerships that work together to accomplish the Great Commission.

Almost all these long-term workers are serving in closed countries.