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Because this year’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is the most important offering in the history of the International Mission Board, I am asking every church to give 10% more to the IMB this year than…

Generosity among Southern Baptists remains strong as evidenced by the most recent Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® totals. When the books closed on the SBC’s 2023-24 fiscal year Sept. 30, the Annie…

International Mission Board of Trustees | Richmond, Virginia Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to address the board. Thank you, Pastor Clint, Pillar Network, Kentucky Baptists, WMU, and other special guests for being with…

In the International Mission Board report to Southern Baptist messengers and guests at the SBC Annual Meeting on June 12, IMB President Paul Chitwood wasted no time getting to the heart of Southern Baptist missions….

International Mission Board of Trustees | Richmond, Virginia Good morning and thank you for your ongoing commitment to your role as an IMB trustee. Together, we have committed ourselves to addressing lostness as the world’s…

International Mission Board of Trustees | Phoenix, Arizona Thank you for your ongoing service on the board as we work together to address lostness — the world’s greatest problem — with God’s solution, which is…

In a meeting with Southern Baptist leaders in Phoenix, International Mission Board (IMB) President Paul Chitwood and North American Mission Board (NAMB) President Kevin Ezell underscored their strengthened commitment to jointly meeting needs and changing…

Editor’s note: October is Cooperative Program Emphasis Month in the Southern Baptist Convention. What do you wake up thinking about? What about when it’s 3 a.m. and you can’t go back to sleep, what keeps…

Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board, started IMB’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting with a request. He asked the more than 11,000 messengers if they would record a greeting to…

Like most Baptist churches of the day, First Baptist Church of Murray, Kentucky, regularly hosted missionaries and denominational workers raising financial support. Growing frustrated with so many requesting to speak on Sundays, Pastor Harvey Boyce…

“Will you make the first and most expensive Christmas gift this year a gift to our Global Missions Offering?” Sitting in the sanctuary of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston Salem, North Carolina, on the first…

Editor’s note: The following is IMB President Paul Chitwood’s address to the SBC Executive Committee on September 20, 2021. In late July, Michelle and I, along with two of our daughters, traveled overseas, where we…

Matthew 24:14 records these words of our Lord: “This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Because Southern Baptists are…

A letter from IMB President Paul Chitwood to Southern Baptist churches Dear Church Family, It’s been a difficult year and, we’d all agree, it still is. That’s as true for our Southern Baptist overseas missionaries as…

The 2020 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® goal is $175 million. That number is significant because 2020 marks the 175th anniversary of Southern Baptists sending workers to the nations. The annual offering makes up almost 60% of the…

The difference a 6% annual increase in giving would make Watch and listen as IMB President Paul Chitwood explains the importance of increasing Lottie Moon Christmas Offering giving by 6% each year. This amount is…

My first international mission trip took place on a farm in central Kentucky. As a new pastor in the community, I found myself interacting often with migrant workers from Central and South America. And I…

“There’s no hope! There’s no life! We have no hope!” With tears streaming down her face, an elderly woman stood before me half way across the Simon Bolivar International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela. She…

EDITOR’S NOTE: April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. Learn more about the Cooperative Program here. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)—Standing on the observation deck of the tallest building in Africa and looking…

Dr. Paul Chitwood gave the following address to the International Mission Board trustees following their unanimous vote to elect him as the 173-year-old entity’s thirteenth president. It is by God’s grace that Michelle and I…

Nearly every Sunday I have the privilege of preaching in a different church in Kentucky. The pastor is often present. While a few minutes of interaction before worship and casual discussion over lunch afterward does…