Tis the season for IMB missionaries to connect with churches. “Our missionaries get to be on the front lines, but they also get to share those amazing stories of what God is doing with our churches,” said IMB’s Victor Hou.
At one training this spring, and IMB missionary made a shocking discovery. While teaching at a training center about 10 hours away from his home, a local partner revealed something surprising about the group of believers in attendance.
On Nov. 10, New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, hosted a Sending Celebration that featured 49 newly appointed missionaries. The IMB event kicked off the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s annual meeting.
Korean pastors and church leaders greeted each other warmly, some clearly friends and others meeting for the first time. Representing different churches, they joined in
“Ask God to use this truck to open gospel access in places that might be closed using traditional methods of evangelism,” notes medical missionary.
Where she currently serves, an IMB missionary started hosting trauma-focused discipleship groups with Ukrainians and other Eastern European women.
As the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church approaches, Southern Baptists are encouraged to pray for the believers who are met with threats, beatings, imprisonment and even death for their faith in Christ.
University students from Zambia, Mississippi and Tennessee sat around a blazing fire pit in Lusaka, Zambia. Songs and laughter filled the night air. And, like typical college students, conversations moved deeper the longer they hung out.
When the books closed on SBC’s 2023–24 fiscal year Sept. 30, the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions totaled $74.7 million, and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions totaled $206.8 million.
As an IMB missionary, Nita Kilkenny works with nationals who are dedicated to bringing the gospel to hard-to-reach areas in the Southeast Asian mountains. And meeting basic needs is leading to Bible studies, baptisms and lives changed.
