In a border town of Turkey, a Syrian family who fled from the civil war struggles to find food and shelter. The mother, Ghufran (name changed), looks at the dying bird her children have brought in and says, "We've become like this bird here, and the bird is better than us. We are living, but we are not living, because we are living like death." Photo by Jedediah Smith/IMB
Photo by Jedediah Smith/IMB
An Iraqi Christian woman whose named is translated as "Faithful" sits in her apartment in northern Iraq beneath a portrait of her deceased daughter, Rita. Her daughter was doused with gasoline and set aflame by radical Islamists more than a year ago. Before Rita died in her mother's arms, she asked her mother to forgive her murderers. Photo by Joseph Rose/IMB
Photo by Joseph Rose/IMB
Outgoing IMB President Tom Elliff gives words of advice and encouragement to new IMB President David Platt moments before the missionary appointment service held Aug. 27 at The Heights Baptist Church in Colonial Heights, Va. On this, the same day he was elected president, Platt spoke to 50 new missionaries and reminded them that believers this side of heaven owe the gospel to the lost men and women this side of hell. Photo by Chris Carter/IMB
Photo by Chris Carter/IMB
Four years ago Old Town Baptist Church in North Carolina began praying for God to show them where to engage an unengaged, unreached people group. After one year of praying, God led Old Town to these coastal waters and the T people in Southeast Asia. Photo by Hugh Johnson/IMB
Photo by Hugh Johnson/IMB
At dusk, IMB missionary Mitch Englehart (left, name changed) and Manoj teach and share with locals at their last stop of the day, a small South Asian village where Manoj's church-planting network has been actively sharing the gospel. Photo by Paul W. Lee/IMB
Photo by Paul W. Lee/IMB
This man, one of the many victims of profound poverty living in a slum area of a South Asian city, sustained horrific burns when he came home drunk one night, and in despair doused himself with kerosene -- then set himself on fire.
Photo by Hugh Johnson/IMB
Photo by Hugh Johnson/IMB
For two-and-a-half years, Southern Baptist missionary Pam Whitehead, along with her late husband and several prayer teams, walked and drove through Conestoga Mobile Home Park in Monroe, Ga., praying over the park and its residents. Today, Pam continues to minister there. An unwelcome bite from resident Linda's pit bull opened the door to the distraught woman's home, where Pam shows off her stitches and offers the love of Jesus.
Photo by Mark Sandlin/IMB
Photo by Mark Sandlin/IMB
A Haitian woman praises God during a weeknight worship service at Restoration Baptist Church in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, that IMB missionary Carlos Llambes helped start. Through a church-planting institute he began five years ago, Haitian and Dominican Baptists in the island nation have started nearly 100 new churches, many of them Haitian. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB
Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB
A young man gives a look of indifference at a street corner bar in the northern Vietnam city of Hanoi. Photo by Chloe Lewis/IMB
Photo by Chloe Lewis/IMB
Charity Malinao's father, Antonio, sits in the rubble of his family home that was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan as IMB missionary Kim Cruse comforts Charity. Antonio saved one cooking pot from his home in the Philippines; everything else was destroyed. Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB
Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB
A Jola woman in West Africa wears a traditional headdress meant to invoke the spirits. During a traditional ceremony, an unidentified woman will wear the headdress, along with a cloth covering her face. Though she is unknown to the villagers, when she is wearing the headdress and carrying the idols, she is believed to be channeling the spirits. Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB
Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB
This young Syrian girl desires to be a journalist, even as many of her fellow countrymen and women who are journalists are risking their lives to tell the stories of the ongoing conflict. Photo by Joseph Rose/IMB
Photo by Joseph Rose/IMB
They embark on a five-hour drive throughout the Cuban countryside on Saturdays to share the gospel in small towns and villages where there is little or no gospel witness. Photo by Will Stuart/IMB
Photo by Will Stuart/IMB
IMB missionary and nurse Teresa Flora examines a malnourished baby girl in Sephareng village at a makeshift medical clinic in Lesotho. The girl's aunt brought her to the clinic and also is her caregiver. Photo by Paul W. Lee/IMB
Photo by Paul W. Lee/IMB
Pain. Loss. Fear. Uncertainty. All of these are captured in this image of a young woman as she visited one of the makeshift memorials to the fallen on Kiev's Independence Square. Ukrainians have been reminded that independence comes at a high price and have come together on their knees as a nation called to prayer. Photo by Marc Ira Hooks/IMB
Photo by Marc Ira Hooks/IMB
A street corner prayer meeting in Ukraine's eastern town of Donetsk. Photo by Charles Braddix/IMB
Photo by Charles Braddix/IMB
Richard Buan eats his dinner by candlelight outside the tomb where he sleeps with his family in Cebu, Philippines. Baun's family home was destroyed in Typhoon Haiyan. His family now sleeps in open tombs, where they are protected from the elements, but still fear evil spirits and thieves. Ninety percent of the homes in their village were destroyed in Typhoon Haiyan, and most people are still living in tents and other temporary structures. Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB
Photo by JoAnn Bradberry/IMB