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
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
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Keith Evans, IMB trustee from the Northwest, speaks with Paul Chitwood, IMB president, before the February meeting begins. IMB Photo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Paul and Michelle Chitwood, greet newly appointed missionaries and their families before the Sending Celebration. IMB Photo
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Dr. Paul Chitwood talks with Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. Chitwood traveled to the region to observe Southern Baptist relief efforts.
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Rick and Cindy Jenkins, left, former IMB missionaries spend a moment laughing with with Charles Clark, the IMB’s vice president of mobilization, D. Ray Davis, the IMB’s Church Mobilization team manager, and IMB President Paul Chitwood. IMB Photo
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IMB President Paul Chitwood shares with Sending Celebration attendees that the IMB exists because we know the solution to the world’s greatest problem – lostness. He thanked Georgia Baptists for their partnership to get the gospel to the nations. IMB Photo
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IMB President Paul Chitwood shares with Sending Celebration attendees that the IMB exists because we know the solution to the world’s greatest problem – lostness. He thanked Georgia Baptists for their partnership to get the gospel to the nations. IMB Photo
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IMB President Paul Chitwood shares with Sending Celebration attendees that the IMB exists because we know the solution to the world’s greatest problem – lostness. He thanked Georgia Baptists for their partnership to get the gospel to the nations. IMB Photo
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Paul Chitwood and Georgia Baptist Mission Board executive director, Thomas Hammond, welcomes the 24 newly appointed missionaries to Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia. IMB Photo
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David Melber and wife, left, chief operating officer of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board and Georgia Baptist Mission Board Executive Director Thomas Hammond and wife, right, along with IMB president, Paul Chitwood, center, welcome newly appointed missionaries to Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia.. IMB Photo
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The sanctuary at Beaverdam Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Virginia, was filled with attendees who came to support the 24 missionaries participating in the September Sending Celebration. IMB Photo
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Paul and Michelle Chitwood pray over missionary Brodie Craig. She is pictured here (center) with her mother, Jill, and grandmother, Suzie Carraco, from Lexington, Kentucky. IMB Photo
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Paul Chitwood shares a moment of fellowship with newly appointed missionaries to Japan, Brandon and Arriah Lipscomb, prior to the February Sending Celebration. IMB Photo
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Pastors and church leaders gather with Paul Chitwood, IMB president, to pray for newly appointed missionaries. The IMB Sending Celebration was at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, Va. IMB Photo
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“Every day, 157,690 people will die apart from Christ and spend eternity in hell,” IMB President Paul Chitwood told messengers to the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting June 14. “It’s daunting – maybe even entirely overwhelming to absorb the reality of lostness. The reality of that number is heartbreaking and almost paralyzing. …
Thankfully we do not shoulder that number by ourselves. What we do, we do together, or we do not do it at all.” IMB Photo
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Backdropped by a newly revealed International Mission Board logo, IMB President Paul Chitwood addresses messengers to the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., June 14. IMB Photo
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