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 you gave last year. If every church raises their giving by just 10%, we can fully support our Southern Baptist […]
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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 us this week. What a privilege last evening to be able to celebrate the sending of dozens more missionaries and
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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 greatest problem. To that end, we are striving for a growing missionary presence around the world. Thus, we rejoice over
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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 the gospel, by means of a missionary presence among those who have yet to hear the Good News. I bring
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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 you awake? I almost always think first about work. For me it’s the work of the International Mission Board. Thoughts
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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 Taylor tried something new. He placed a box at the back of the sanctuary and told the congregation they could
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“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 Sunday of December, I heard Pastor Will Toburen ask that question of his congregation. Why does generous giving to support
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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 met with more than 60 of your missionaries and their kids. We were so encouraged by the days we spent
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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 committed to a foundation built upon the Word of God, our International Mission Board embraces a biblical missiology. As a
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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 it is for the rest of us. Some serve in countries that are returning to martial law lockdowns after having endured
