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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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 missionaries overseas to be shared in a monthly online meeting of IMB field personnel and staff. The crowd enthusiastically participated
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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
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 International Mission Board’s revenue and helps to support 3,535 missionaries and their families. Going back to 1888, the year Woman’s Missionary
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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 needed to send an additional 500 fully funded missionaries to the unreached by 2025 and is vital to the vision
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“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 was one of thousands to cross the bridge on foot that day. Most carried food, medicine, and other essential items.
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