Women’s health trainings help reach the unreached in remote villages
In remote villages of the Himalayan mountains, women’s health trainings are opening doors for believers to build relationships and share the Gospel.
Prosthetics ministry opens gospel doors in East Asia
Imagine the closest hospital isn’t just an ambulance ride away from your home. It’s a trek that requires multiple days and a 12-hour car ride on bumpy roads.
Social media outreach deepens discipleship for South Asian believers
SOUTHEAST ASIA – “Are good works enough to go to heaven?” the social media post read. Some believers posted the question on a Christian social media page they ran at the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims.
Tokyo Deaflympics provides abundant Gospel opportunities
The line into one of the stadiums at Tokyo’s Komazawa Olympic Park stretched out the door and down the street. The crowd waited patiently in the crisp fall air for a chance to watch the volleyball semifinals at Deaflympics, a worldwide event that brings Deaf athletes together to compete every four years.
Persecution refines believer’s faith in Southeast Asia
SOUTHEAST ASIA – Rose waited anxiously through the night, checking for a text message from Sari, a new believer she had been discipling. The two met when Sari came to attend college on the island where Rose, an International Mission Board worker in Southeast Asia, lives.
Neighbors in Thailand come to faith in Christ
Yep had tried everything to quit drinking, but nothing had ever worked. He lived on the outskirts of his small Thai town with his niece.
Health care becomes Gospel bridge in the Philippines
PHILIPPINES – Some of the places with the least access to the Gospel in the Philippines are small rural villages home to many Muslim ethnic people groups. Southern Baptist Filipino churches have begun sending out missionaries to these areas, but it’s often challenging for them to build relationships and be accepted by the villagers.
God’s unexpected ‘big plans’ for digital engagement effort
When Caylen Wood moved to Asia to serve as a Journeyman, she knew a big part of her job would be helping her team connect with NextGen students. In the country where Wood serves, the majority of the population is under 30 years old.
20 years after tsunami, God still at work
On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people fishing, playing with friends and preparing resorts for guests. They had no idea that 100 miles away, deep in the Indian Ocean, two tectonic plates had collided with enough force to create a massive earthquake […]
IMB missionaries in Japan see ‘unprecedented responsiveness’ to Gospel on college campuses
Akio, a college student in Osaka, Japan, was lonely when he moved away from his hometown to Osaka for school. He didn’t know many other students there, and Osaka’s population of almost 19 million people made it easy to feel anonymous and alone. One day, he was invited to a free event some Christians on […]
