International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 39 new full-time, fully funded missionaries and unanimously elected the next vice president of global engagement during their Feb. 4–5 meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
The pews of First Baptist Church, Charleston, South Carolina, were filled to celebrate newly appointed International Mission Board missionaries on Wednesday, Feb. 5.
William Thomas “Tom” Espy, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in the United Kingdom, died Dec. 13, 2024, in Canton, Georgia.
“Amid this darkness shone one light: Mario’s mother, Miriam. She was a woman on fire for the Lord,” writes Ruth Bowles.
“Our hope is for African believers to own their part in the Great Commission and for us to equip those who are already called,” said Miriam Pumpelly.
In the last few years, the International Mission Board began initiatives to more closely involve churches in the preparation and deployment process. See excerpt from “The Church and the Missionary” …
Feb. 2 is George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday.
Sometimes, finding unreached people groups means getting your truck stuck in a riverbed, driving 12 hours and traveling to village after village after village, asking if anyone knows anything about an unengaged and unreached people group.
