International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood said he is encouraged by the Lottie offering total that exceeded this year’s goal of $205 million.
Cheers erupted from the newly commissioned International Mission Board missionaries for the six global mission partners taking the stage.
Many years ago, a believer gave Barkhat’s father a Bible.
“The Great Commission is not just about the IMB,” said Eric Kuykendall, who leads an International Mission Board team in Paris working among Chinese people.
An immigrant couple from a Slavic church in California will continue ministering in Spain, but they will return as International Mission Board missionaries.
Maria swore like a sailor and used cocaine. Her boisterous behavior made her a familiar face, and voice, in her 8,000-person community.
The phone buzzed, flashing an unidentified caller ID. The Middle Eastern pastor deliberated before accepting the call. It wasn’t spam but a voice from the past.
“There is a generation of South Asian children, for the first time in the history of this place, being brought up in churches that worship and follow Jesus,” says Baptist missionary Morgan Rawling.
