Our church reaching our world . . .
Thousands of people around the world are coming to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. Yet the stark reality remains: 1.7 billion people still have little or no access to the gospel message. And while Southern Baptists are going to international mission fields in unprecedented numbers, many more are needed.
Your church can have global impact through a partnership with the International Mission Board (IMB). Gifts to the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® enable Southern Baptists to support more than 5,300 missionaries in more than 150 countries. The challenge is in reaching the more than 6,500 unreached people groups throughout the world.
The IMB is poised to help you understand the needs, overcome the barriers of culture and language, and connect you with the mission opportunities that are providentially matched with your church’s vision and resources. The ends of the earth are within our grasp!
For more information on how the IMB can help you reach your ends of the Earth, call
1-877-462-4721, email ActsOne8@imb.org, or visit the IMB Website at www.imb.org.
“Our people have learned to risk going places where they’re not comfortable, they’ve had to depend on God in ways as never before. And, they’ve seen God work in dramatic ways. It has had a phenomenal impact in prayer, in witnessing, in building witnessing relationships, and in giving. We’re committed to taking the gospel to the ends of the Earth.”
Al Gilbert, pastor
Calvary Baptist Church Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Register your Church for the Acts 1:8 Challenge!
KEY LINKS:
IMB Connect
Access IMB’s best practices, projects, training and field information all in one place. Preparing the churches of your association for short-term missions has never been easier. We have developed training and project templates that will help churches have an effective and streamlined experience on their short-term overseas mission. It is all available to Southern Baptist churches and your association. Please go to imbconnect.net to sign up.
Share Jesus Without Fear and The Call to Follow Christ
Lifeway provides two key resources in the 50 top languages. They will be available as a download or as a print on demand. The two resources focus on evangelism and discipleship: Share Jesus Without Fear and The Call to Follow Christ. If you have Portuguese friends and pastors, they may want to have a free copy.
Also, the downloadable LifeWay Multiethnic Church Support Initiative brochure describes the all the translations available for Share Jesus Without Fear and The Call to Follow Christ.
Commission Stories.com
CommissionStories.com blends insights, sounds and images into a new storytelling magazine. Each story draws from the lives of missionaries and the people they work with as they seek to tell other about our Lord Jesus Christ.
A missions update: Your IMB (bi-weekly)
The latest news, the newest resources, coming emphases -- just the help you need to involve your church in missions.
Kids On Mission Video Series
Kids On Mission is a video series designed specifically for ages 5-12. Each video takes kids to exotic locations and provides them with cultural and historical information. Most importantly, it shows them all the ways that God is working and how they can be Kids On Mission.
Two new volumes are released each year. Each volume features 10 to 15 minute episodes and includes a Scripture-based Factoid Check quiz book and Viewer’s Companion for leaders.
To order KOM, click here.
Your Church on Mission With God fliers
Three minutes a month. When you use these monthly mobilization fliers, that's how long it takes you - and those in your church - to find out what God is doing to reach a lost world and how you can be a part.Brief testimonies of God’s power overseas and stateside through the North American and International Mission Boards. May be used as a church bulletin insert. Free subscription (churches are encouraged to order in bulk and to order in increments of 50). Ships 11 times a year.
KOMpray
Plug your kids into prayer with KOMpray Web site and weekly e-newsletter.
Video Resources to use with your children, youth and adults
http://imbresources.org/index.cfm/fa/store.prodlist/CatID/10/DeptID/1.cfm
Pray
Hundreds of people groups have no contact with the message of Jesus Christ. Your church can pray for Christ's witness to be shared among one of these people groups.
Virtual Prayer Walks
A virtual prayer walk guides you to pray specifically and insightfully for the needs of an unreached people group somewhere in the world by providing images and requests.
Virtual Prayer Walks for Central Asia
Virtual Prayer Walks for Central and Eastern Europe
Virtual Prayer Walks for West Africa
A Virtual Prayer Walk for East Asia
PrayerPlus provides a way for your church to take the first step in reaching a people group that has little or no access to the Gospel.
For more information about a PrayerPlus partnership call (888) 462-7729 or e-mail prayerplus@imb.org.
Other ways your can lead your church to pray
"Lift Up Your Voice" churchwide call to prayer
Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization
Week of Prayer for International Missions
Give
Your church's sacrificial giving through the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering makes a huge impact. It allows your church to partner with more than 5,000 of our missionaries in reaching the unreached with the Gospel.
How missions is funded
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Cooperative Program
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Find all the ways you can serve overseas through IMB... from a week to a lifetime.
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