About 200 participants gathered for the 2026 Missions College, held Jan. 21–24 at the IMB’s International Learning Center in Rockville, Virginia.
It began on a sunny day at a local park in Belfast, Ireland. International Mission Board missionaries Russell and Tori Minnick were watching their kids have fun on a playground.
When Jonathan and Sarah Alexander met in Central Asia in the early 1990s, most of the countries in the region were a part of the Soviet Union.
“What would have happened if we’d given up after 15 years, or after four?”
When Song, a Hindu woman, and her family moved to the outskirts of a large, South Asian city for work, she prayed for God to teach her more about Himself.
Yacouba couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. He heard there had been an attack on his brother-in-law’s village by a terrorist group. They hadn’t been able to get in touch with him, so he and his wife went to the village to search for him.
In the last three years, teams made up of IMB missionaries or missionary explorers, translators and local believers have found 337 of these people groups and engaged 121 with the gospel for the very first time. Wait. So, how does this work?
Charlie and Robin Janney have been IMB missionaries serving in Mexico for 27 years. They partner with the Mexico Baptist Convention to minister to migrants and displaced peoples. Through trauma healing they help people process their pain…
