Care for Missionaries
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Fuel a missionary movement from Korea throughout East Asia.
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About This Project
There is tremendous potential through this opportunity to significantly advance the gospel to unreached peoples and places around the world. The overarching objective is to strengthen and support Korean Baptist missionary selection, sending, support, and strategic deployment initiatives. The International Mission Board (IMB) is working closely with the Korean Foreign Mission Board (FMB) on a three-pronged initiative called Korean International Missions Coworker Help Initiative (KIMCHI) to strategically send short-term and long-term missionaries to partner with IMB personnel on the field. Your gift to KIMCHI will fuel a missionary movement from Korea to East Asia and the world as we partner together to finish the task among all peoples and nations.Terms of service for Korean international missionaries will include Hands-On missionaries serving six months to one year; Journeyman missionaries serving from one to two years; and long-term Apprentice units that serve more than three years.
Why direct giving matters
Giving directly to a missionary team helps fund the specific, on-the-ground needs your missionaries care deeply about—needs that aren't covered by CP and LMCO alone.
In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
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They ministered alongside career missionaries on college campuses, in churches, and through outreach programs. Many plan to return as career missionaries.
Post-Pandemic Strides. Over the years, your gifts to KIMCHI mobilized, recruited, trained, and deployed more than 140 Korean missionaries to work alongside IMB field teams globally. But in 2020, pandemic border closures and travel restrictions impacted the recruitment and sending of Korean Hands On (up to one year) and Journeyman (two-year) volunteers. But in 2021, by God’s grace, three Korean Hands On volunteers were deployed to a team in Sub-Saharan Africa, and two more were sent in 2022. In total, more than 20 Korean missionaries currently serve with IMB teams in six different countries.