IMB trustees OK record budget for mushrooming overseas needs
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--With new fields opening worldwide and record numbers of people hearing God's call to overseas missions, trustees of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board wrestled with how to stretch limited financial resources far enough to cover all the needs.
IMB’s 55 newest missionaries reflect SBC’s ethnic rainbow
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--One couple sold a farm they had worked hard to acquire. Another sold most of their possessions. And others gave up lucrative careers, including one who was a special assistant to a prominent governor in the South.
IMB: Missions doors ‘wide open’ for African American Baptists
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–WANTED: African American Southern Baptists willing to follow God’s call to go anywhere overseas as international missionaries. That message was repeated over and over the week of July 24-29 during the first-ever International Missions Week at Glorieta, a LifeWay Conference Center, in New Mexico. “The Bible doesn’t say, ‘Go into the world, you […]
Glorieta conference spotlights growth, role of global missions
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–As the world enters the 21st century, Christians face unprecedented opportunities to literally carry the gospel to every person on earth, said speakers at the first-ever International Missions Week at Glorieta, a LifeWay Conference Center, in New Mexico. More than 1,800 people gathered for the July 24-29 sessions to worship God and to […]
SBC mobilization for missions keyed to ‘spiritual motivation,’
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–The mobilization effort necessary to win the world for Christ “will not come from program promotion but only from a spiritual motivation that captures the heart of God for the nations,” International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin told agency trustees July 29 in a meeting at Glorieta, a Lifeway Conference Center, in New […]
Blackaby, Willis say missions is outcome of experiencing God
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–The call to salvation is a call to be on mission with God to share Jesus Christ with the billions who do not know him, two noted Southern Baptist leaders said. When someone trusts Christ as Savior, he or she automatically becomes part of God’s plan to reach the whole world with the […]
IMB’s emerging missions force reflected in background of appointees
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–Fueled by the vision that someday people from every tribe, nation and tongue on the face of the earth will sing praises to God in heaven, Southern Baptists’ 69 newest missionaries were challenged to overlook the hardships that lie ahead and instead concentrate on the goal. “You are going to encounter a world […]
Southern Baptists challenged to evangelize world’s cities
ATLANTA (BP)–Southern Baptists must deliver the message of salvation to the teeming masses living in the major cities in every part of the world, International Mission Board leaders told the closing session of the Southern Baptist Convention June 16. Just as God called Jonah centuries ago to go to Nineveh and proclaim the Word of […]
Houston jailhouse conversion propels missionary to Kenya
ATLANTA (BP)–His teenage years were filled with drugs, drug dealing, alcohol, expulsion from college and jail — activities not usually associated with a missionary. Yet today Troy Haas is a symbol of the new breed of young missionaries willing to go anywhere and present the gospel in whatever way it takes. “I ought to be […]
IMB seeks improved relations with Southern Baptist Hispanics
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Between celebrating 70 retiring missionaries’ 1,882 years of combined service and appointing 76 new ones, International Mission Board trustees began grappling with how to involve more Hispanic Southern Baptists as missionaries and staff and how to improve relations with the Hispanic community in general. The trustees — meeting May 24-26 in Richmond, Va. […]
