by Chris Doyle SOUTH AMERICA (IMB) – For more than 35 years, Tim Kunkel has served as an International Mission Board missionary in South America, serving with global missionary partners and other IMB missionaries. He travels often to other South American countries, including Uruguay and Argentina, from his home base in Chile. As he travels, he carries gospel tracts with him to share with people he meets. On each tract, Kunkel offers his contact information. “I don't normally leave the … [Read more...]
‘Just not bearable’: 70 Christians beheaded in Democratic Republic of Congo
NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, Congo (BP) – The beheaded bodies of 70 Christians were found in a Protestant church in North Kivu Province in the Congo (DRC) around Feb. 15, several religious freedom advocates said, blaming the extremist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). The ADF is accused of approaching homes in Mayba, in the Lumbero territory, beginning Feb. 12 and capturing as many as 100 Christians through Feb. 15, marching them to a Protestant church in Kasanga affiliated with the Evangelical … [Read more...]
Protestant pastors bring attention to global Christian persecution
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Lifeway Research) – As pastors speak and pray with their congregations, they say they’re also keeping persecuted Christians around the world in mind. More than 9 in 10 U.S. Protestant pastors (93%) say their church has engaged in at least one of six ways to bring attention to Christians suffering persecution within the past year, according to a Lifeway Research study. Around 1 in 14 (7%) say they haven’t done any of those six, and less than 1% aren’t sure. “The United … [Read more...]
Ukrainian college student relies on faith while in different cultures
by Chris Doyle/IMB He stood in front of a group of children sharing a Bible lesson during Holiday Club. Churches in Australia have Holiday Clubs instead of Vacation Bible Schools, and this was one of the activities Danylo “Daniel” Ibrahimov led as a summer missionary with the International Mission Board at a church in Albany, Western Australia. His other duties with the church included discipling students in small groups and playing guitar with the worship team. Ibrahimov and other … [Read more...]
IMB commissions 39 new missionaries at SBC’s oldest church in United States
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The pews of First Baptist Church, Charleston, South Carolina, were filled to celebrate newly appointed International Mission Board missionaries on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Thirty-nine missionaries preparing to live and serve among unreached peoples shared brief testimonies with the crowd and welcomed prayers offered on their behalf. Marshall Blalock, pastor of the church and IMB trustee, welcomed the missionaries and congregation to the historic church with strong ties to … [Read more...]
‘Home Church’ can provide vital relationship to missionaries
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is an excerpt from “The Church and the Missionary,” The Great Commission Baptist Journal of Missions, published by the International Mission Board. Read the journal by clicking here. By Karen Pearce The IMB has always required church endorsement for service overseas. Most missionaries were part of a healthy church where discipleship and accountability shaped their call. Churches committed to pray for their missionaries. In the last few years, the … [Read more...]
First Person: God is faithful and just to forgive
By Ruth Bowles, IMB missionary kid EDITOR'S NOTE: Download the February PrayerPoints featuring daily prayer requests for missionary kids around the world. Each month will focus on a different theme or one of IMB’s eight affinity groups. Alcoholism has its claws wrapped tightly around the souls of the small town I grew up in, here in the Amazon region of South America. There are very few people whose lives go untouched by the darkness and destruction it brings. Mario, too, was … [Read more...]
New training center prepares African missionaries to reach nations
by Lauren Milewski/IMB NAIROBI, Kenya (IMB) – International Mission Board missionaries commissioned a new facility, Lead Global Training Center, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 26 to prepare Africans to reach the nations. IMB missionaries, along with senior leaders from Richmond, gathered to pray for healthy African churches to send African missionaries and to praise God for the work He is already doing across the continent. Chad Pumpelly, who serves with the IMB and directs the Lead … [Read more...]
Iran’s Christians suffer sixfold increase in prison time, report says
LONDON (BP) – Christians in Iran suffered combined prison sentences amounting to a sixfold increase over time levied in 2023, all as punishment for their faith, London-based religious advocacy group Article 18 said in its latest annual report. The courts sentenced 96 Christians to a combined 263 years in prison in 2024 on faith-related charges, compared to 22 Christians sentenced in 2023 to a combined 43.5 years, Article 18 said in the report released Jan. 20 in collaboration with Open … [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...]
Cuba frees pastor after U.S. drops island from state sponsors of terrorism list
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (BP) – Evangelical Protestant pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo is among hundreds of prisoners, including several religious leaders, Cuba released last week after the U.S. removed the island nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Cuba released Fajardo Jan. 17 from Mar Verde Prison in Santiago de Cuba, international religious freedom advocate CSW said upon his release, after President Biden’s 11th hour announcement that he would remove Cuba from the … [Read more...]
George Liele church planting, evangelism, missions Sunday materials available
RICHMOND, Va. (IMB) – Southern Baptists have been encouraged to celebrate African American and Black pioneers whose lives inspire the next generation to continue the work of solving the world’s greatest problem – lostness. The International Mission Board invites all Southern Baptists to recognize Feb. 2 as George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday. This special Sunday recognizes the life and work of these pioneers, and so many more: George Liele, who many … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 81
- Next Page »