SÃO PAULO, Brazil (IMB) – Maria swore like a sailor and used cocaine. Her boisterous behavior made her a familiar face, and voice, in her 8,000-person community. “You couldn’t miss Maria, even from a distance, because you could hear her from a distance. She was loud and rambunctious,” Eric Reese said. Eric and his wife, Ramona, serve with the International Mission Board in São Paulo, Brazil. Eric met Maria in a favela, or slum, where they were experiencing an “evangelism explosion” … [Read more...]
From Budapest and beyond, students partner with IMB on mission
Download the August PrayerPoints featuring daily prayer requests for European peoples. EUROPE (IMB) – This past July, TSA lines in airports were filled with students with passports in hand and a desire to learn about missions in their hearts. Volunteers from across the U.S. traveled to eight European countries to take part in the International Mission Board’s youth labs. Youth labs are a five-day program for high schoolers to learn about missions alongside a long-term IMB missionary, a … [Read more...]
Mexican shepherdess chooses to follow Good Shepherd
OAXACA, Mexico (IMB) – As a shepherdess, Martina resonated with the story of Jesus leaving the 99 to rescue the one sheep who wandered off. Other Bible stories International Mission Board missionaries Phil and Laura Metcalf shared seemed hard for her to understand. The Metcalfs work with Indigenous communities outside of Oaxaca, Mexico. Martina’s husband, Alfredo, had a Bible that he received in the U.S. He read some, but he didn’t really understand it. Phil offered to study with him, … [Read more...]
Project 3000 explorer locates remote people group, discovers the Lord already at work
Sometimes, finding unreached people groups means getting your truck stuck in a riverbed, driving 12 hours and traveling to village after village after village, asking if anyone knows anything about an unengaged and unreached people group. More than 3,000 people groups around the world have no strategy for reaching them with the gospel. Project 3000 is a concerted effort to ensure that every people group has access to the gospel. The International Mission Board is sending 300 … [Read more...]