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• IMB, Billy Graham Center focus on rural churches

  by Julie McGowan, posted Friday, October 11, 2019 (3 days ago)

  

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  WHEATON, Ill. (BP) -- The International Mission Board and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College's Rural Matters Institute have launched a five-year research project that aims to arm the rural church with resources needed to advance the Gospel within and beyond the United States.

  "The idea is to provide information that will benefit rural practitioners in the United States and around the world," said Jeffrey Clark, director of rural missiology and research for the IMB. "This will involve research, writing, and training for rural practitioners ... that will help [them] be more effective in reaching their field for Christ." Read More

• Lottie Moon Offering totals $156.6 million

  by Ann Lovell, posted Thursday, October 03, 2019 (11 days ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Southern Baptist church members gave $156.6 million to support international missionaries in 2018-2019, the third-highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions ever received.

  "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. "When you make LMCO a priority in your church, by God's grace, we see the numbers rise exponentially of those who meet Jesus for the first time, of those who follow our Lord in baptism, and of new churches planted." Read More

• 5 ways to pray for believers in Middle East

  by Mary Alan, posted Monday, September 30, 2019 (14 days ago)

  

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  MIDDLE EAST (BP) -- It's the little things, the mundane, that cause me to fail as a cross-cultural witness.

  On the other hand, the catastrophes and emergencies -- these events are catalyzers for my witness:

  A colleague has been kidnapped. Read More

• TRUSTEES: IMB appoints missionaries, hears abuse prevention update

  by IMB and Baptist Press, posted Friday, September 27, 2019 (17 days ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 24 new fulltime, fully funded personnel to take the Gospel to unreached people and places during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond, Va.

  The meeting also included an update on an external report regarding IMB's prevention and response to abuse and harassment; the approval of a balanced budget for 2019-20; and orientation for 23 new trustees. Seth Polk, trustee chairman and senior pastor of Cross Lanes Baptist Church in Cross Lanes, W.Va., presided over the meeting. Read More

• Floyd to missionaries: You were chosen for this moment

  by Ann Lovell, posted Thursday, September 26, 2019 (18 days ago)

  

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  MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (BP) -- The International Mission Board celebrated the sending of 24 newly appointed international missionaries in a service at Swift Creek Baptist Church Sept. 25. IMB trustees voted to approve the candidates during a meeting near Richmond earlier in the day. Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, preached the message at the celebration, encouraging the new missionaries to "step into the missionary calling."

  The 24 missionaries represent churches across the United States -- from Louisiana to Michigan and North Carolina to Hawaii. Families, friends, and pastors from across the country also attended the event. Read More

• Filipino Baptists sign covenant with IMB

  by Caroline Anderson, posted Thursday, September 19, 2019 (25 days ago)

  

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  BOHOL, Philippines (BP) -- The International Mission Board has signed a covenant with One Sending Body, the sending entity of five Baptist conventions in the Philippines.

  The agreement forges an official partnership between the two missionary-sending organizations and facilitates teaming between Filipino and IMB missionaries to advance the Gospel. Read More

• Every prayer, every trip matters: Let us pray more

  by Libby Donaldson , posted Thursday, September 19, 2019 (25 days ago)

  

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  CZECH REPUBLIC (BP) -- Tears of joy flooded Stan and Abbey Wilcox's* eyes. It had been years since these International Mission Board missionaries lived in the Czech Republic.

  Back then, the spiritual darkness had been so overwhelming at times. And now -- were they hearing this correctly? Were two people they had never met thanking God publicly for leading them to start a church where Stan and Abbey had prayed nearly a decade earlier? Read More

• New entity leaders deliver first reports to EC

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, September 18, 2019 (26 days ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Four of the five newly-elected Southern Baptist entity presidents delivered their first reports to SBC Executive Committee members, noting some of the challenges they face and thanking churches for supporting their work through the Cooperative Program.

  Among the new leaders speaking Tuesday (Sept. 17) in Nashville –- in addition to EC President Ronnie Floyd, who gave his first report as president to the committee in June -- were Ben Mandrell of LifeWay Christian Resources, Jamie Dew of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Adam Greenway of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Paul Chitwood of the International Mission Board. Read More

• A bold & obedient witness

  by Madeline Arthington  , posted Monday, September 16, 2019 (28 days ago)

  

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  CENTRAL ASIA (BP) -- Ruslan's ritual Muslim prayers, which he performed five times a day, brought no relief to the ugliness he felt in his heart. He was a tough young man. He angered easily and was a troublemaker in his village in Central Asia.

  But when Ruslan, name changed for security, first heard the Gospel from relatives in the big city, he couldn't sleep for days. On the fourth day, he visited their church and heard the truth about Jesus again. In tears, he repented and believed in Christ for salvation. Read More

• Chitwood at Gateway: Go wherever God calls

  by Katherine Chute, posted Wednesday, September 11, 2019 (one month ago)

  

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  ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) -- Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president, urged a chapel audience at Gateway Seminary Sept. 5 to remember that God's vision cannot be fulfilled until people from every nation, all tribes and all languages have heard the Gospel.

  Preaching from Revelation 7:9-10 -- which is the basis for the IMB's vision statement -- Chitwood reminded faculty, staff and students on Gateway's main campus in Ontario, Calif., that without vision, we have no direction. Read More