On Valentine’s evening, many Southern Baptists gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, to celebrate the latest group of missionaries heading to the nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Keith Jefferson believes that retired missionaries are valuable to the ongoing mobilization of churches because they not only have experience, but they also have contacts — if they’ll keep up with them.
This spring, the IMB will host a Sender’s Summit, where leaders from four ministries that are excelling at mobilizing their constituencies will share their methods to encourage other churches to be on mission.
The new Christian thought a small Bible study group was a great idea, but she had one stipulation. She didn’t want it to be a small group exclusively for those her age. It needed to be intergenerational.
A 20-year partnership between the International Mission Board and Fusion, a missions program from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College in Kansas City, Missouri, has helped students live a missional life.
“It’s one thing to believe the Bible, read the stories and have faith in what you’re believing in. It’s another thing altogether to be a part in some way of the history of it all.”
The International Mission Board, North American Mission Board, Send Relief and Woman’s Missionary Union are uniting to better serve churches focusing on the missionary task in every community on North American soil.
“We will train you to do some very hard things if you are willing to step forward and trust God,” IMB’s Project 3000 global coordinator said.
“Leland [Webb] brought a contemporary shift with the use of professional photos and writing that breathed life into the details and anecdotes of missions.”
Michael Domke, a displaced missionary to Ukraine, shares about church planting in wartime and the power of the Holy Spirit in the midst of it all.
