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  • Quebec students 'have an open heart right now'
    by IMB Staff, posted Tuesday, December 10, 2019 (2 days ago)

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    QUEBEC, Canada (BP) -- Jacques* had a head full of questions. He had wrestled with them his whole life, and when he joined the soccer team at his university, he brought them with him.

    Robert Pinkston saw them -- and he knew he had answers. Read More

  • Tokyo missionary watches hearts 'slowly soften'
    by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, December 09, 2019 (3 days ago)

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    TOKYO, Japan (BP) -- Sometimes when Mark Bennett baptizes someone, he makes a normal request -- he asks the new believer's family and friends to come up on stage and stand behind him.

    And then something abnormal happens -- dozens of people do what he asked.

    That may not seem strange, but when the man being baptized is homeless, that crowd is a ... Read More

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: Sharing 'the hope of God' in atheist Bulgaria
    by IMB Staff, posted Friday, December 06, 2019 (6 days ago)

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    SOFIA, Bulgaria (BP) -- George remembers the secret police raiding his house twice when he was young. He went to secret Christian meetings, and his family tucked their Bibles away so they wouldn't be found. "We were a persecuted Christian family," he said.

    But despite his family's gritty faith, George's heart hadn't experienced real change. Christianity was a cause to him, not a relationship. It wasn't until after the fall of communism when IMB missionary Bill Wardlaw came and preached at George's church that he heard the Gospel differently. Read More

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: Venezuelan exodus offers 'historic moment'
    by IMB, posted Thursday, December 05, 2019 (7 days ago)

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    BOGOTÁ, Columbia (BP) -- The day they heard Carlos' story, Paul and Robin Tinley had just dropped off the last little bit of winter clothing they had collected. They had been passing clothes out for months, and this was the first time they had run out.

    It's not hard to see why they did. The flow of human need just hasn't stopped. Read More

  • Churches fund specific missionaries through LMCO
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, December 04, 2019 (8 days ago)

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn., (BP) -- "Cooperative missions has a name and a face -- actually, tens of thousands of them," Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board (IMB), said. "They are the names and faces of Southern Baptist missionaries who have been sharing the Gospel among the nations for the past 174 years."

    Connecting those faces of the real people who are on the field to the financial resources needed to keep them there is what drives congregational giving. Read More

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: South Korean students catch missions vision
    by IMB Staff, posted Wednesday, December 04, 2019 (8 days ago)

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    SOUTH KOREA (BP) -- Im-Sara is a believer -- a preacher's kid too. But she had never been involved in missions. So when Hun Sol asked her if she wanted to be part of the six-month-long student missions program he runs, she wasn't sure.

    "I prayed that God would move her," said Hun, an IMB missionary. Read More

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: Sharing the Gospel with a people on the move
    by IMB Staff, posted Tuesday, December 03, 2019 (9 days ago)

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    EAST ASIA (BP) -- Peter Station* lives his life chasing after cows, camels, and gers -- large, round, felt tents that seem to move more than they sit still.

    His country has more than a million nomadic people scattered across a land mass about half the size of the U.S. To say they're hard to find is an understatement, and to keep connecting with them once you find them is even harder. They're cattle herdsmen who live off the land, and what they need from the land is ever changing with the seasons. They pack their tents up on their camels and move as often as once a month. Read More

  • Chinese government designates Lottie Moon's church as historical site
    by Catherine Finch, posted Monday, December 02, 2019 (10 days ago)

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    PENGLAI, China (BP) -- The name, "Lottie Moon," is known by Southern Baptists far and wide. From the Woman's Missionary Union's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering to movies, books and documentaries detailing her life of service, Lottie Moon is often hailed as a "missionary hero."

    Lottie Moon's legacy will now be preserved beyond the Southern Baptist realm. Wulin Shenghui Church of Penglai in Shandong province, where Lottie Moon was a member during her time in Dengzhou, China, has been designated as a nationally protected historical and cultural site by The State Council of the People's Republic of China, the China Christian daily reported Nov.14. Read More

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: Prayer requests from Paul Chitwood
    by Staff, posted Monday, December 02, 2019 (10 days ago)

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    IMB president Paul Chitwood shares specific ways Southern Baptists can pray for missionaries around the world, who are "on the front lines of pushing back the darkness." Read More