International Missions

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Three Southern Baptist Asian groups sent people overseas this summer, to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines. All reported amazing stories of God at work with and through them.

It wasn’t much of a road – more a dirt track through the mountains of South Asia – when the aging 4-wheel-drive vehicle lurched, slid and rolled backward as it lost a drive shaft.

INDIANAPOLIS – Three adults from the Southern Baptist Fellowship group Myanmar Baptist Churches U.S.A. led a two-week mission trip to Central Asia in July as chaperones for seven youth ages 14 to 17.

IRVINE, Calif. (BP) – The Gospel was so rampant in North Korea near the end of the 19th Century, its capital Pyongyang was termed the “Jerusalem of the East.” But Christians there today easily risk death just for openly calling on Jesus’ name.

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – Wayne Jenkins’ vision to build 75 church buildings in his beloved Brazil was fulfilled this July, seven years after his death.

DALLAS (BP) – Jonathan Leeman addressed the elephant in the room right away.

LUSAKA, Zambia (BP) – Ricky Wilson, founder of the multifaceted Africa Partnership, tells a story he describes as “remarkable.”

When many Christians imagine unreached people groups, they envision dense jungles and dusty trails. They see villages full of sun-baked huts with thatched roofs housing exotic natives in some of the most remote, difficult-to-reach places on the planet.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) – “Women marry,” was reportedly her father’s response when missionary and Bible translator Katharine “Katy” Barnwell told him she wanted to enroll in university in 1950s London.