FIRST-PERSON: Where am I from?
When you commit to the missionary life, you are committing to the conviction that heaven — not any particular place on earth — is your home.
God’s work continues even when Central Asia assignment looks incomplete
When Russ and Olivia Hooper joined the International Mission Board’s Macedonia Program, they signed up for a four-year adventure that blended hands-on church planting with seminary study.
Slovenia’s gaming culture leads to Gospel connection for IMB missionary
Daniel Bates couldn’t believe his eyes. But there it was, tucked between a pastel row of cafés and cobblestone alleys in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia – a friendly local game store. The International Mission Board missionary grabbed his wife, Heather, and derailed their shopping trip.
Caring for Europe’s seniors turns crisis into Gospel opportunity
European streets and sidewalks still bustle with a young generation that is growing through immigration. However, more and more neighborhoods are filled with senior citizens. Many local populations are aging rapidly. Birth rates are falling. Migration is bringing in fresh faces, yet the continent’s native population is slipping into the senior bracket faster than any other region on the planet.
FIRST-PERSON: We’ve had a life-changing first year in Uganda
When my family first answered the call to pursue the International Mission Board for full-time missions, we had no idea where we would end up or what we would be doing.
Immersion mission school empowers global partners
LISBON, Portugal -- From one archipelago to another, a Portuguese global missionary partner is employing the same church-planting skills in islands separated by thousands of miles.
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.
SBC DIGEST: Baptist Record updates; Chitwood speaks at U Mobile
Baptist Record merges with MBCB communications, appoints Young editor; Chitwood cites surge in missionary callings in address at U Mobile.
Baptist chaplains transform Kenya’s hospitals, prisons, schools
NAIROBI (BP) – Supporting a family ending the life support of a loved one. Ministering to prison inmates and officers. Counseling students.
Two young leaders impact church growth in Guinea
The African nation of Guinea, formally known as the Republic of Guinea, is a country of roughly 14 million people, yet it has only nine Baptist churches nationwide. Ninety percent of the population is Muslim and less than one percent identifies as evangelical Christian. The Baptist movement is barely three decades old and most of […]
