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Today’s students are tomorrow’s career missionary force. IMB missionaries in the Philippines understood the need to equip the student generation to obey the Great Commission when they began raising up the next generation of missionaries through the Nehemiah Teams missions training program. Over the past 15 years, Nehemiah Teams have trained and sent out more than 3,300 American and Filipino students to share the gospel throughout Southeast Asia and around the world. They are poised to send out even more. Your partnership with this Nehemiah Teams project will enable IMB missionaries to ramp up their training and send out even more students.
Your gift will facilitate the creation of more student-missionary teams, the development of new strategic partners, and the ability to send out more young adults to unreached people groups across Southeast Asia. Through Nehemiah Teams, students in at least 31 countries are connecting with IMB church planting efforts. Nehemiah Teams has had strategic partnerships with Southern Baptist churches adopting unengaged, unreached people groups and with IMB personnel and national conventions in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa and the Middle East. Partner today through giving, praying and spreading the word to the high school and college students in your life that God wants them to be part of his global mission.
Thank you so much for your generous support of our team and the students we equip to go to the nations. Because of your prayers and sacrificial giving, we are creating additional student-missionary teams, developing new strategic partners, and sending out more young adults to unreached people across Southeast Asia.
Here is an update from one of our students:
Since arriving in Asia in August 2022, I have prayed for opportunities to use my art for God’s glory. God has offered me multiple occasions to use my artistic gifts to connect with others and to tell people about who God is and how much He loves and cares for them. Praise God! I have even been able to teach an art class for children and their parents!
In art class, I had students paint five loaves of bread and two fish as I told them the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. At the end, we all cut out our food paintings and put them in a basket I painted so the children could understand how Jesus multiplied the food. Seeing how joyful the kids were to paint was beautiful, but they were also attentive while listening to the story. We are praying we can soon use these art classes to develop Bible studies groups.
Join us in prayer for this Nehemiah Team:
Your generosity to the “Nehemiah Teams: Student Missionary Training” project enabled us to train these students to go to the nations, working with IMB personnel in new, unreached locations. In addition, we equipped national partners to come alongside the teams to further mentor them and follow up on those who express interest in knowing more about Christ.
From the skyscrapers of Hong Kong and vast plains of Mongolia to smoky rainforests hiding winding rivers edged by golden sands, the natural beauty and long history of these Asia-Pacific Rim countries testify to God’s creative hand. This vast region houses four of the most populous global cities, as well as the country with the world's largest nominal population of Muslims.
Spirituality swirls through cities and countryside like the smoke from temple incense sticks. Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, animists, Daoists and ancestor worshipers live here, comprising 851 unreached people groups who have never heard that freedom is found in Christ. Pray for divine appointments for Christian workers to share that Jesus is the way to peace with God and eternal life. Ask God to glorify His name among the peoples of the Asian Pacific Rim Peoples affinity.
