In Kenyan villages, drought leaves famished hearts & stomachs
SAMBURU, Kenya (BP)--Charlie Daniels (no relation to the country music legend) is in mid-sermon when an elderly woman faints. It isn't the Kenyan heat that's the culprit -- it's hunger....
Oral missions network wins award
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–The International Orality Network, of which the International Mission Board is a sponsor, received The Mission Exchange’s Innovation in Mission Award at a Sept. 22 conference in St. Louis. The Mission Exchange, composed of 100 evangelical, missions-sending organizations that support approximately 20,000 missionaries, praised the International Orality Network for its innovative approach to […]
IMB appoints 60 new missionaries
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Does God know sign language? Since their earthly fathers cannot speak to them in their heart language, can their heavenly Father understand them?
Slain missionary’s widow retires from Philippines with forgiveness in her heart
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Instead of celebrating with flowers, chocolates and a romantic dinner, emeritus missionary Lyn Hyde spent her 43rd wedding anniversary alone. On June 12, 1966, Lyn had vowed to love, honor and cherish her husband, Bill, until death parted them. In 2003 a terrorist's bomb at a Philippines airport did just that.
Africa missions pioneer John Mills dies
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Missionary pioneer John E. Mills, who personally opened missions work in Ivory Coast and later led Southern Baptists to nearly triple the number of mission fields in West Africa, died July 10. He was 87. Mills, a Texan who never lost his booming cowboy drawl, was passionate about West Africa — and he […]
Retirees’ 1,576 years in missions celebrated
ROCKVILLE, Va. (BP)–Fifty-three retired International Mission Board missionaries celebrated the highs and remembered the lows of their service overseas as part of an emeritus conference June 10-14 at the International Learning Center in Rockville, Va. Though 15 years’ service qualifies for emeritus status, the 53 missionaries honored at a recognition service June 13 averaged 30 […]
In Athens, Greece, students work, worship & witness
ATHENS, Greece (BP)--Tourists snap pictures and shoot video as 60 International World Changers hold an impromptu praise and worship service atop Mars Hill in Athens, Greece. As the students' voices carry across the crowd, an Iranian man on the fringes presses forward to ask for a copy of the song's lyrics. 
"Do you understand what is going on?" asks Jerry Johnson, Baptist Collegiate Ministries senior minister at Georgia Southern University.
"Yes, you are Christians," the man replies.
As Johnson uses the lyrics to start telling the story of Christ, the man interrupts. Motioning to his daughter, he instructs her to listen to their discussion so they can talk about it in more depth later.
"God sometimes takes me from America and a guy from Iran, and we meet in Greece," Johnson says. "I think that is God's timing."
