IMB workers are mentoring these churches and missions-sending organizations to lay the foundation for them to be the next wave of missionaries who take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Your generosity and prayers will help IMB missionaries and their local partners to train and send more laborers to take the gospel to more unreached peoples and places.
Praise the Lord that global missionary partners are already being sent out in several places around the world! In the Philippines, the B tribe were fierce headhunters, and other tribes around their region were terrified because no outsiders had ever survived contact with them. The B-tribe church was born through the miracle of God protecting the missionaries who first took the gospel to them. Today, the B tribe church is thriving and sending its own missionaries to surrounding tribes, crossing cultural barriers to ensure that the unreached peoples in this mountainous region of the Philippines hear of the good news of Jesus Christ.
Through God’s power, your partnership can help write that story in many countries across the world. Give today to prepare more missionary partners to spread Christ’s glory to the ends of the earth through a globalized mission force!
IMB workers are mentoring these churches and missions-sending organizations to lay the foundation for them to be the next wave of missionaries who take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Your generosity and prayers will help IMB missionaries and their local partners to train and send more laborers to take the gospel to more unreached peoples and places.
Praise the Lord that global missionary partners are already being sent out in several places around the world! In the Philippines, the B tribe were fierce headhunters, and other tribes around their region were terrified because no outsiders had ever survived contact with them. The B-tribe church was born through the miracle of God protecting the missionaries who first took the gospel to them. Today, the B tribe church is thriving and sending its own missionaries to surrounding tribes, crossing cultural barriers to ensure that the unreached peoples in this mountainous region of the Philippines hear of the good news of Jesus Christ.
Through God’s power, your partnership can help write that story in many countries across the world. Give today to prepare more missionary partners to spread Christ’s glory to the ends of the earth through a globalized mission force!
Min Jae Kim is one of many global missionary partners God is using to share the gospel with those who have never heard. READ MORE!
Hector Cabrera is a global missionary partner who works closely with International Mission Board teams in Uganda. He was sent by the missions agency Cuba to the Nations. READ MORE!
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On Oct. 29 in Kenya, IMB missionaries serving in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asian Pacific Rim signed a memorandum of understanding solidifying the sending of missionaries from Asia to serve in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more…
While political unrest persists in Cuba, Global Missionary Partner Hector Cabrera, a Cuban, serves Sudanese refugees living in Uganda with the love of Christ and his God-given talents.
Cabrera was sent to partner with IMB missionary Jeremy Taliaferro’s team serving these refugees earlier this summer. The team’s main objectives are humanitarian aid and spiritual aid. He plans to be in the country for a minimum of three years.
Most of the refugees this team works among are from South Sudan. A percentage are from North Sudan, and a handful are from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The majority are animists, who follow traditional African religions. These false religions are also mixed with elements of Christianity. Some of the refugees are Muslim.
Taliaferro’s team partners with Christians within the Sudanese refugee population to strengthen the church there. They focus on trauma healing, evangelism, discipleship and church planting.
The team works on water wells for the community, builds houses for those who are disabled and particularly vulnerable, and delivers food to children in schools.
Cabrera has been helpful to the team, bringing diversity and experience. But one of his most valuable contributions is his background in sports ministry. He responded to the call to missions while still in Cuba, after he heard news reports of teenagers in trouble. He’s served areas of Cuba in various ministry roles, but his heart for youth has always played a major part.
“In the refugee camps, I saw a lot of children. I decided to teach them Bible stories using sport,” Cabrera said.
Taliaferro explained, “There’s a lot of idle young men who are just standing around with nothing to do during the day. Hector being able to get out and get them involved in sports and share the gospel is going to open up lots of doors.”
Cabrera is willing to jump in and serve wherever he’s needed, though. “If they need me to repair wells and houses, I do it. But my favorite thing is to play sports with the kids.”
His time overseas hasn’t been easy, especially as unrest persists in his home country and COVID-19 continues to be a threat.
“Cuba is going through a lot of upheaval right now,” Taliaferro said. “I think oftentimes, we tend to think that because our GMPs are internationals, they’re fine when traveling away from home. But he has family back in Cuba.”
Taliaferro continued, “There are people who have been sick since he’s been here. He’s seen his country break out into rioting and protests throughout. I’ve seen it weigh heavy on him.
“He deals with the same challenges that we do when we’re here, knowing we’re in a different country and far from home,” Taliaferro added. “But knowing that he’s missing out on some things – some important things that are happening in his home country while he’s away serving the Lord – I think that is something that is new and fresh (for Cabrera), and something that we’ve been going through for the last couple months.”
Cabrera – who was sent by Montes des los Olives Baptist Church in Alamar, Cuba, through the sending agency Cuba to the Nations – rests in the knowledge that he’s fully supported by his church during his time overseas.
“Yes, it will be hard, but I’ve already seen God take care of my family, helping them, supplying their needs. Our church supports me. Anything I need or my family needs, they are there, always,” he said, gratitude apparent in his voice.
Taliaferro commended the way the Cuban church has been supporting their missionary, not only “financially and through prayer” but in such an involved manner, even caring for Cabrera’s family in his absence as he helps get the gospel to the nations.
“I think they’ve really gone above and beyond,” Taliaferro expressed. “I’m so grateful for the Cuban church and the sacrifices they’re making and how well they’re doing in sending their people. I think it’s been a great testimony to watch and to listen to.”
The Great Commission wasn’t just given to Southern Baptists or the church in the United States. It was given to the global Church. And if the global Church is to be effective in reaching the 154,937 people who die daily without Christ, it must seek out partnerships beyond the borders of the U.S. Global missionary partners in South America and the Middle East are already changing the face of traditional missions. Read more…