Missions

Join us in the month April for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) is the primary way we support mission efforts in North America. One hundred percent of gifts given to AAEO are used to support Southern Baptist missionaries serving across the United States…

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Sidewalk Chapel Masuda San was a broken man when he showed up at Mark Bennett’s sidewalk chapel for the homeless in Tokyo, Japan. “It was a typical story. They come for the food,” said Mark, an IMB missionary. “But while they’re there, we give them a portion of Scripture and share the gospel.” And Mark learns their names—a big deal when you feel…

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS  A New Beginning  For months, Paul and Robin Tinley have been watching people spill out of Venezuela and into Colombia. It’s about 5,000 a day—more than 3 million total—who have left their homes in hopes of escaping hunger, crime, unemployment, and lack of medical care. “Not only is the flow of refugees not diminishing, it’s actually bumping up,”…

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Catching a Vision Hun Sol has a lot of favorites. He loves seeing students sent out through the missions program he runs in South Korea. He loves seeing them work alongside IMB missionaries to take the hope of Christ to parts of Asia that haven’t heard it yet. But most of all, he loves seeing students learn to share the gospel for the very first time.…

Dear Grand, I want to make you aware of a mission’s website and mobile app that is designed to help us pray for the nations to come to faith in Jesus. It is called the Joshua Project. There are lots of tools and information on their website about how to pray for people groups around the world that have not yet been reached with the gospel of our Savior. One of the best…

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS PRAYER FOR INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEE Don Alan (name changed) says he remembers a refugee telling him once that he didn’t feel alive, but he wasn’t dead either—he was somewhere in between. “Hopelessness is a universal feeling among refugees,” Don said. “They feel forgotten.” That’s why IMB missionaries like Don, who serves in North…

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS PRAYER FOR INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS JONES FAMILY IN JAPAN Jared and Tara Jones knew that God could do a lot with something little. But they never imagined just how many doors He would open through their infant son, whose adoption people had told them was almost impossible in Japan. In the East Asian country, 40,000 children live in orphanages, but…