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  • IMB selects Langley for church relations role
    by Brandon Porter, posted Tuesday, December 24, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (KT) -- A well-known Kentucky Baptist pastor is leaving the pastorate to work with the International Mission Board (IMB) in late January. Bill Langley, senior pastor of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, will work with the IMB to help Southern Baptist churches that have no recent connection to the mission agency. Read More

  • Fall of Berlin Wall: Historical reflection
    by Mike Creswell and Joanna Pinneo, posted Friday, November 08, 2019 (4 years ago)

    IMB Photo by Joanna Pinneo
    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, a barrier 103 miles long and 13 feet high enclosed West Berlin. It cut off some people from jobs, churches, families and friends. Several Baptist churches in West Berlin lost hundreds of members, some half their membership. In East Germany the wall was considered a necessary way to staunch the loss of its people who went West and didn't return. At least 77 people died trying to cross the barrier.

    The middle of West Berlin became one big pedestrian mall in the days after the Berlin Wall opened last November. Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners visited former homes, friends and family, [and] looked and shopped in stores they had only heard about before. At least for a time, there were no barriers of age, background or ideology. Everyone, from old West Berliners to young East Berliners, celebrated just being together. Read More

  • Five tips for a new missionary
    by Cyndi Logsdon, posted Friday, June 28, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- My years on the mission field were truly some the most fulfilling years of my life. They were joyful and life-giving. They were also tear-filled, stressful, and often just plain difficult. There were days I wanted to give up and move back to America. And yet, I'll never regret a single day that I and my family lived on mission overseas.

    I have learned a few things along the way. If I could go back 20 years and write a letter to my brand new missionary self, I'd highlight the truths that I needed to be reminded of every day. Read More

  • IMB Sending Celebration: 'why we came together'
    by Ann Lovell, posted Thursday, June 14, 2018 (6 years ago)

    Photo by Chris Carter/IMB
    DALLAS (BP) -- In an International Mission Board service marked by testimonies and prayer for the approximate 11,700 people groups around the world, IMB President David Platt reminded messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention that the SBC exists first and foremost for the spread the Gospel.

    "Tonight we have the opportunity to remember the reason we came together in the first place. We exist to combine the efforts of our churches for the spread of the Gospel in the world," Platt said during IMB's Sending Celebration the evening of June 12. Read More

  • ANALYSIS: Workplace evangelism abroad begins here
    by Sebastian Traeger, posted Tuesday, May 16, 2017 (7 years ago)

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    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- I've had the privilege lately of seeing an increasing number of people at all stages of life express interest in joining the global mission of God through the International Mission Board. Many wonder how they can be preparing to go.

    On one level, it's very simple: current faithfulness in your assignments is the greatest predictor of future fruitfulness. So, faithfully serve where you are. Read More

  • IMB to align missionary requirements with BF&M
    by David Roach, posted Friday, May 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- The International Mission Board's new policy on missionary qualifications -- replacing previous restrictions related to baptism, speaking in tongues and divorce among other matters -- represents an effort to keep basic requirements from going beyond the Baptist Faith and Message, IMB President David Platt told reporters May 14. Read More