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Remembering lives given for the cause of Christ

Approximately 60 missionaries and children have died due to violent circumstances while serving with the International Mission Board (formerly the Foreign Mission Board) since the organization’s founding in 1845. – Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 5
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Reaching the hard-to-reach in the Amazon rainforest

Week of Prayer for International Missions: Day 4 – “As animists, they tend to be pragmatic and go with what works as opposed to what may be right or wrong,” Brewster said. “They live far up an Amazonian tributary, just a step removed from the Stone Age.”
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SBC churches to observe June 7th Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

“Prayer is our greatest resource in the Great Commission, and it is also the greatest act of compassion we could perform for our brothers and sisters around the globe who are enduring persecution,” Chitwood said.
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IMB celebrates 175 years with prayer, virtual timeline

As a result of this level of cooperative praying, giving, going and sending, Southern Baptists have sent almost 25,000 missionaries since 1845. These missionaries have served in 189 countries and represent 228,000 years of service. 
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Send Relief names Francis Horton as vice president over international operations

Send Relief announced Francis K. Horton III as its new vice president overseeing operations outside North America on Thursday, April 2. Horton brings more than 20 years of international missions and relief experience to the role.
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IMB’s Chitwood sets five-year plan, new VPs

With less than half of Southern Baptist churches reporting on the Annual Church Profile that they gave to the Lottie offering last year, we have lots of opportunity to grow the support needed by our missionaries," Chitwood said.
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IMB African American church strategist named

Jason Thomas has joined IMB's partner relations team as African American church mobilization strategist. In this capacity, Thomas will work with nearly 4,000 African American churches across the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to mobilize pastors and church members to pray, give, go and send.
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IMB values partnerships, Chitwood tells advocates

More than 155,000 people die daily without Christ. This is a harsh and unacceptable reality facing Southern Baptists, IMB President Paul Chitwood told a recent gathering of advocates near Richmond, Va.
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Lottie Moon Offering totals $156.6 million for 2018-19

"Because you and your church gave through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, you are a part of reaching the unreached in every nation," said IMB President Paul Chitwood.
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IMB appoints 24 new missionaries

The International Mission Board celebrated the sending of 24 newly appointed international missionaries in a service at Swift Creek Baptist Church, Wednesday, Sept. 25. The new missionaries included one couple with Missouri connections serving among the people groups of East Asia. Since they serve in highly restricted area, their names were withheld for security purposes.
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Southern Baptists celebrate sending 42 new missionaries

Southern Baptists celebrated the appointment of 42 new missionaries in a service held Wednesday, Nov. 14, near Richmond, Virginia. Churches of all sizes from Louisiana to Indiana and North Carolina to Kansas are sending singles, couples and families to large cities, small villages and hard-to-reach places around the world

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