Partnership Missions Stories

International

Digital doors open the gospel for islanders in Southeast Asia

Today, face-to-face conversations about Christ on the Southeast Asian islands are harder to accomplish. For the IMB's Southeast Asia teams, digital engagement — the use of social media platforms to share a message — has become a plausible and effective entry point.
International

First international MedAdvance sparks vision for healthcare missions in Latin America, beyond

For 19 years, MedAdvance has been an annual International Mission Board event that promotes global healthcare strategies to reach the lost. More than 120 healthcare professionals, pastors, missionaries and ministry leaders from across Latin America and beyond gathered in Paraguay, Sept. 3-5, for the first international MedAdvance event. Participants believe this milestone could help mobilize a new generation of global healthcare missionaries.
International

Women’s ministry opens doors in Panama’s newest province

When International Mission Board missionaries Jeff and Shelah Fathauer heard 12 young women from California Baptist University (CBU) were coming to serve in Panama, they were excited to connect them to a local church in Caimito, a rural district. But as they considered ministry opportunities for an all-female team, they found themselves in uncharted territory.
International

Southern Baptists celebrate new IMB missionaries appointed for service among the nations

Southern Baptists gathered Sept. 16 at The Heights Baptist Church in South Chesterfield, Virginia, to celebrate 46 International Mission Board missionaries preparing to take the gospel to the nations.
International

IMB missionaries strive to saturate South Asia with Scripture

In a South Asian area of more than 100 million people, a stark reality shapes the work of local believers: there’s no place to buy Bibles. For James Andretti, an International Mission Board missionary, that reality highlights both an enormous challenge and a remarkable opportunity. While God is bringing people to faith across the region, demand for Scripture is growing faster than traditional distribution methods can keep pace.
Missouri

Greene County Association sees kingdom growth in Guadalajara, Mexico

Since 1997 Samuel Gonzalez has led annual mission trips to Guadalajara, Mexico, for Missouri churches through the Greene County Baptist Association in Springfield. He has previously worked for both the association and Missouri Baptist Convention to facilitate ethnic church planting.
International

Truth heard behind closed doors in Southeast Asia

In one Southeast Asian country, missionaries are pursuing a unique group of people through digital engagement: Muslim women.
Missouri

Church mission team serves in rural Guatemala

Distributing food, water filters, a stove and leading a Vacation Bible School were activities of a mission team from South Haven Baptist in Springfield to a rural Guatemala community.
Missouri

Macedonia Baptist mission team provides training for Bible-storying evangelism in Ghana

To meet people and talk to them about Jesus, sometimes it just takes a good story.  Alan Locke and a team of three other men found that to be true on a recent mission trip to Accra, the capital city of Ghana in West Africa.
Missouri

Lynwood Christian Academy teacher ministers to children at partner school in Kenya

In the rural town of Kithianio, Kenya, children are able to receive education and the good news of Jesus through Eagles Christian Academy. These children are supported by Lynwood Christian Academy in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
International

Oklahoma farm girl helps to strengthen churches in Colombia, one pig at a time

Taylor McConnell grew up on a pig farm, earned an animal science degree from Oklahoma State University and spent years learning skills she once assumed would lead to veterinary medicine. Instead, God used those experiences to prepare her for a ministry assignment she never could have planned.
International

A beach encounter in Guinea becomes a discipleship journey

Over a meal, Tristan Liam, an International Mission Board missionary, asked his friend Vennico, “What helps you persevere in your Christian walk despite all the persecution and mockery you face?” Vennico is from one of the largest unreached people groups in the West African country of Guinea, and he is the only believer in his whole family.

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