Paul Chitwood, IMB president, announces to trustees that engagement in 2022 increased in many areas. Applications for volunteer trips more than tripled this year. IMB Photo

Keith Evans, IMB trustee from the Northwest, speaks with Paul Chitwood, IMB president, before the February meeting begins. IMB Photo

IMB President-Emeritus Jerry Rankin jokingly asked for a vest that matched the one Paul Chitwood and Chuck Pourciau were wearing. Chitwood immediately presented him with a vest they intended to give him later. Rankin served the IMB for 40 years, 17 years as president. IMB Photo

Paul Chitwood, IMB President, center, and Dr. Chuck A. Pourciau, lead pastor at Broadmoor Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana and chairmen of the board of IMB Trustees, right, laugh during Rev. Brian L. Zunigha, left, director discipleship ministries at California Baptist University, and IMB trustee presentation of updates from the Training committee to the February 2022 trustee meeting at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Glen Allen, Va. IMB Photo

IMB President Paul Chitwood gave a report from the IMB to more than 11,000 messengers at the 2023 SBC annual meeting in New Orleans. Chitwood asked messengers to think of IMB missionaries “as your own.” IMB Photo

Paul Chitwood speaks with newly appointed missionaries, Tyler and Rachel English. Along with their daughters, Asher (5), Graycen (3), and Wrenley (1), they will serve as missionaries in Guatemala. Tyler grew up on the mission field, and Rachel’s uncles (D.Ray and Daren Davis) serve with the IMB. IMB Photo

Paul and Michelle Chitwood, greet newly appointed missionaries and their families before the Sending Celebration. IMB Photo

Pastor Piotr Czerwiński of Community of Joy Baptist Church speaks with IMB President Paul Chitwood and missionary Kaci Nease at the Baptist Seminary of Poland’s campus in Warsaw. The seminary and church have provided shelter, food and clothing to the influx of refugees fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war. IMB Photo

IMB missionary Daniel Nease talks to IMB President Paul Chitwood and other IMB colleagues about the ongoing refugee relief efforts of the Baptist Seminary of Poland in Warsaw. The campus has been receiving, sheltering and feeding refugees fleeing their war-torn nation. IMB Photo

IMB EURO affinity leader Jacob Boss prays for Marek Głodek, president of the Polish Baptist Union, with IMB President Paul Chitwood and Mateusz Wichary, vice president of the European Baptist Fellowship, after a meeting about Baptist cooperation in providing relief to the growing number of Ukrainian refugees pouring into Poland daily. IMB Photo

IMB and Send Relief leaders pray for Ukrainian Pastor Michal Baloha after hearing about his church’s relief efforts for the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Baloha pastors Bible Baptist Church of Warsaw of which many members are Ukrainian. (left to right: Jacob Boss, Michal Baloha, Jason Cox, Paul Chitwood, Jacob Kirchner, Brant Bauman) IMB Photo

IMB and Send Relief leaders pray for Ukrainian Pastor Michal Baloha after hearing about his church’s relief efforts for the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Baloha pastors Bible Baptist Church of Warsaw of which many members are Ukrainian. (left to right: Jacob Boss, Michal Baloha, Jason Cox, Paul Chitwood) IMB Photo

IMB and Send Relief leaders pray for Ukrainian Pastor Michal Baloha after hearing about his church’s relief efforts for the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Baloha pastors Bible Baptist Church of Warsaw of which many members are Ukrainian. IMB Photo

IMB missionary Kaci Nease welcomes IMB President Paul Chitwood to Warsaw, Poland. IMB Photo

Marek Głodek, president of the Polish Baptist Union, prays with IMB President Paul Chitwood after a meeting about Baptist cooperation in providing relief to the growing number of Ukrainian refugees pouring into Poland daily. IMB Photo

IMB President Paul Chitwood talks with Polish Baptist Union leaders to discuss their response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. (left to right: Paul Chitwood, Jason Cox, Jacob Boss) IMB Photo

The sanctuary of the Baptist Church of Chelms has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo

Henryk Skrzypkowski, pastor of Baptist Church of Chelms, Poland, and IMB president Paul Chitwood give an interview with CBN about Baptists’ relief efforts in response to the war in Ukraine. IMB Photo

IMB President Paul Chitwood and missionary Mike Domke talk with a Ukrainian refugee at the Poland-Ukraine border. The team arrived with representatives from Send Relief to meet with local Baptists and provide support for relief efforts for refugees. In Feb. 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine causing a massive movement of refugees into bordering nations as well as internally displaced peoples within. IMB Photo

IMB President Paul Chitwood and missionaries serving in Europe pray for leaders from the Polish Baptist Union at the Baptist Church of Chelms, Poland. The church’s sanctuary has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church’s members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. In Feb. 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine causing a massive movement of refugees into bordering nations as well as internally displaced peoples within. IMB Photo