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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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 offering totaled $74.7 million, and the Lottie offering totaled $206.8 million — record highs for both. The openhanded giving through
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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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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. “From the Great Commission to the Great Multitude, we unite in a Great Pursuit of those who have yet to
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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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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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