IMB’s Platt hopeful for sending ‘thousands more missionaries’

For more than 170 years, God has blessed the International Mission Board (IMB) for the spread of the gospel among the nations — and by God’s grace IMB is “standing strong,” IMB President David Platt reported to Southern Baptist Convention messengers June 15. “I am confident that not every one of [those years] has been easy,” Platt said. “But that’s…