IMB missionary Mike Domke talks with the pastor of Kyiv International Church about how Send Relief is helping with outreach ministry he and his church are involved with in the capital. IMB Photo

Jeremy Morton, pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, encouraged the newly appointed missionaries and attendees to prioritize intimacy with Christ, while speaking at the September Sending Celebration at Beaverdam Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Virginia. IMB Photo

Jeremy Morton, pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, encouraged the newly appointed missionaries and attendees to prioritize intimacy with Christ, while speaking at the September Sending Celebration at Beaverdam Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Virginia. IMB Photo

Jeremy Morton, pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, encouraged the newly appointed missionaries and attendees to prioritize intimacy with Christ, while speaking at the September Sending Celebration at Beaverdam Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Virginia. IMB Photo

Pastor Gary Stewart, Beaverdam Baptist Church welcomes participants and guests to the Sending Celebration. IMB Photo

Chuck Pourciau, IMB trustee chairman, joins the congregation in a time of prayer for new missionaries. The lead pastor at Broadmoor Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana challenged those attending the IMB Sending Celebration to consider if God was calling them to the mission field. IMB Photo

Jarrett Stephens encourages the newly appointed missionaries that “good things happen when God says, ‘Go,’ and you don’t say, ‘No.'” The senior pastor from Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, addressed the 48 newly appointed missionaries at the IMB Sending Celebration at Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, Va. IMB Photo

Jarrett Stephens encourages the newly appointed missionaries that “good things happen when God says, ‘Go,’ and you don’t say, ‘No.'” The senior pastor from Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, addressed the 48 newly appointed missionaries at the IMB Sending Celebration at Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, Va. IMB Photo

International Mission Board missionary David Brown prays for Ion Burlacu, left, and another Moldovan pastor. Burlacu is a pastor and the director of Bozieni Children’s Home in Bozieni, Moldova. The children’s home housed Ukrainian refugees. David and his wife, Shannon, are partnering with Moldovan Baptists to minister to refugees. Meadow Brook Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, is the Brown’s home church. 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 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

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 missionaries serving in Europe meet with Henryk Skrzypkowski, pastor of Baptist Church of Chelms, Poland, to discuss IMB and Send Relief strategies to provide aid during the Ukraine-Russian war. 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 hundreds of 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

Volunteers Tommy Harrison and Dr. Fuller Robinson visit with Ghanaian Baptist pastor Joseph Sugri Tia in the village of Kolinvaai, Ghana, where they have served the community during dozens of mission trips over nearly four decades.IMB Photo

IMB President Paul Chitwood prays with an IMB missionary and a national pastor in Sub-Saharan Africa.

National pastors perform a baptism at a small rural church in South Asia.

Portrait of a pastor and church planter who has helped plant numerous church in the remote districts of Nepal.

An Indian pastor prays for a woman in his community. He spends many afternoons walking through his village, praying and sharing the gospel with his neighbors.
The pastor was persecuted and almost killed by Hindu extremists in his village. After the 2004 tsunami, he was able to bring aid into his village, opening the door for the gospel.