International Missions

SICILY, Italy (BP) – “The goal is to get the Gospel out,” says Steve Brown, a missionary in Europe serving as a team leader through the International Mission Board for 22 years, the last five based in Palermo, Sicily.

KAUFMAN, Texas – Pastors in Texas have begun connecting with Ukrainian partner churches, planning projects, trips and initiatives as part of the Healing Path Movement, a partnership establishing church-to-church connections between Texas and Ukrainian Baptist churches.

DALLAS – As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its fifth year, the need for emotional and spiritual support for war-weary people is growing.

JOHANNESBURG – One hundred African leaders from 33 nations assembled in Johannesburg, South Africa, in early February to discuss the future of missions on their continent. A common theme reverberated from their lips: It’s time for Africa to embrace its potential as the world’s next great missionary sending force. 

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. – Doug Brown stood on the slopes of Mount Kenya in the cold rain, praying for the 50 students he had traveled 8,000 miles to teach.

NOBTS Global Mission Center launches lecture series with IMB’s Zane Pratt; Taste of the Nations displays Southwestern’s global engagement.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering resources available; Carson-Newman University announces new Tom Elliff Center for Global Missions.

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.