Sue Sprenkle

A South Carolina business found a unique way to support International Mission Board missionaries. Golf Carts.

University students from Zambia, Mississippi and Tennessee sat around a blazing fire pit in Lusaka, Zambia. Songs and laughter filled the night air. And as often happens with college students, conversations moved deeper the longer they hung out.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (BP) – English club in Buenos Aires started out simple enough. Participants learned a few phrases, talked about American culture and listened to English vocabulary.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP) – Lottie Moon’s home church hosted the International Mission Board’s Sept. 25 Sending Celebration. Rob Pochek, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Park Street in Charlottesville, told the 57 newly appointed missionaries, their families and friends that he couldn’t think of a more appropriate place to send them off to the nations […]

Michelle Chitwood tilted her head as she slowly looked around the courtyard. The wife of the International Mission Board president wanted to take in every aspect of this pastors’ wives tea in Lusaka, Zambia.

LUSAKA, Zambia (BP) -- A Zambian pastor raised the silver plaque high in the air to the sound of applause. It was official. The International Mission Board transferred the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zambia property to the Baptist Fellowship of Zambia July 31.

The American doctor hummed “Stayin’ Alive” softly to the young Armenian medic kneeling on the floor administering CPR. As she caught the beat, her confidence increased, and the green light on the practice manikin lit up. She smiled, despite feeling tired and sweat running down her face. She was doing chest compressions correctly.

Chyler Hughes had never seen a Black missionary. At church, she learned to minister in her local community, but no one ever talked about international missions.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from the stage to more than 13,000 messengers and guests sent by local churches to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, June 11-12.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – More than 2,000 people gathered for the International Mission Board dinner June 10 at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. IMB leaders and missionaries brought to life the faces of the spiritually lost around the world.