“It’s incredible what God allows us to be a part of when we join in His mission,” said IMB President Paul Chitwood. “And it’s only going to get batter as Southern Baptists work together on mission through Send Relief.
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.
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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.
“Because of the concentration of lost people groups, we really felt like this is an area where we could contribute and be supportive of our missionaries who are already serving there,” said said David Johnson, AZMN executive director.
Ida Mae Hays, a retired International Mission Board missionary to Brazil, died Feb. 1.
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.
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