International Missions

AMARILLO, Texas (BP) – South Sudanese attending All Nations Worship Church, a ministry of Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo, know the pain of those displaced by the war in Sudan, which has created the greatest humanitarian crisis globally.

KIBERA, Kenya (BP) – Matt Beasley, lead pastor of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, Ky., conducted global missions the two years he and his wife Valerie were International Mission Board church planters in Prague.

ELDORET, Kenya – Thirty-six Kenyan teenage boys and young men came together in November for a leadership training camp. At the end, 13 of them accepted a challenge to lead future gatherings locally and start encouraging other boys and men.

For the third consecutive year, volunteers from First Baptist Church in Garland will travel to eastern Europe to bring Christmas joy to Ukrainian refugee children.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (BP) – When Dakota Baptist Convention evangelism intern Segun Adeyemo accepted Christ in Nigeria in 1998, it was the third time he’d tried to do so. When he’d responded to invitations on previous occasions, beginning at age 11, he’d done so out of fear.

Over the past month, there have been a series of country-wide blackouts across Cuba. These blackouts mean 8.5 million people are without electricity. They cannot store food, charge their phones, refrigerate medicine, or even pump water from wells. We, in partnership with Send Relief and the Eastern and Western Baptist Conventions, feed thousands of people through kitchens located in local churches.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (BP) — There is a sense of loss when people leave a church. There are also times when that loss is coupled with celebration.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – Only 2 percent of an estimated 80 million Deaf people alive today have ever been told the Gospel in their sign language, with at least 380 sign languages in use globally, according to ministry leaders.

PRINCETON, Ky. (BP) — It was more than a decade ago that Kyle Noffsinger began to have a “real heart for mission work.” That passion has led him a lot of places, and last week it led to the dangerous, poverty-ridden country of Haiti.

JAMAICA (BP) – A short-term mission trip to Jamaica was reminiscent of home for Horacio Hall, founding pastor of Faithway Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Va.