Paul Chitwood
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Grateful for our
@IMB_SBC
trustees and the opportunity we have to serve Southern Baptists together.
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In Poland & just met with a Baptist church planter from Lviv, Ukraine who brought his family out of the war. Now working to help us get relief supplies back into Ukraine.
Struggling to talk, he said, “I’m sorry for getting emotional. I wasn’t prepared for this in seminary.”
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Asking for urgent prayers for one of our missionaries overseas who is hospitalized in critical condition with Covid.
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The SBC has survived 36 US presidential elections. Some were slave owners, many were adulterers, some accused of sexual assault, 3 impeached, 1 resigned, others endorsed all sorts of wickedness. Trump nor Biden are the end of SBC.
We cooperate for lost people, not politicians.
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Just walked into the basement of a Baptist church in Warsaw, Poland and heard singing. Ukrainian refugees, Christ followers, found a piano and began to worship.
“Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped” (Job 1:20)
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As worldwide travel is slowed and, in many instances, frozen, remember to pray for your
@IMB_SBC
missionaries as they remain our witness for Christ among the nations. Uninterrupted for 175 years.
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She gets a new last name today. And I get a daughter.
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1000s of Afghans displaced; food shortages, looting. Homes & offices searched & seized; many trying to flee the country with no success.
Pray God will move in the midst of chaos & fear and those without hope will come to know Jesus.
Pray for the courage of Afghan believers.
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4 vital Kingdom statistics that grew from 2019 to 2020 at IMB:
*750K people overseas heard the gospel, up from 500K in 2019
*144K professed repentance & faith in Jesus as Savior, up from 89K
*86K baptized, up from 49K
*18K churches birthed, up from 12K
2020 wasn’t so bad!
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2 IMB missionaries just lost their mother, another just out of emergency surgery overseas, another on medevac flight to US. Hundreds locked down as Covid rages in countries with no vaccines & dozens live in war zones.
They need & depend upon our prayers so hold the ropes today.
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Today is the last day of the
@IMB_SBC
fiscal year. Today I'll report to our trustees that Southern Baptists have given OVER our budget.
In 2020. In a global pandemic.
Southern Baptists love the lost among the nations and want to see them saved, of that I am certain.
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Our 22 year old daughter is 4 months into her nursing career and works on the Covid unit. Telling husbands, wives, sons and daughters they can’t see their loved one who is passing away all alone is a tough assignment.
Pray for our hospital workers.
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Approximately 10million souls in Gaza and Israel today find themselves in a war zone. Most are innocent of the ongoing atrocities. Few are prepared to face eternity.
Pray for peace.
Pray for the gospel to be proclaimed and believed.
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Most of our 3,700
@IMB_SBC
missionaries & their 2,880 children will spend Thanksgiving away from their adult children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins. They do it joyfully though they miss their loved ones. Ask God to use them to display His glory among the nations
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Lots of important things happening in SBC today but none rival this:
101 new
@IMB_SBC
missionaries & their 37 kids complete 7wks of orientation & are being commissioned.
On behalf of 47K
@SBCCP
churches, they will bring help & hope to the lost & hurting
#TheNationsAreWaiting
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74 new Southern Baptist missionaries and their 32 children complete their training this week and were commissioned today. They go out from Southern Baptist churches with the promise of our prayers and financial support.
Remember them.
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In her 50th year with
@IMB_SBC
, 35 of those years as a surgeon at Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Dr. Rebekah Naylor, who also served for several years as the director of the hospital, is as close to a modern day Lottie Moon as I’ve been privileged to meet.
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Just returned home from meeting more than 60 members of the
@IMB_SBC
family who serve in the Middle East and this much I can say—Southern Baptists have sent their best to the nations through IMB.
Their very best.
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First day on the job with
@IMB_SBC
. Chuck is one of the many I’m meeting who do what they do so the missionaries can do what they do
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Don’t worry church bus, you won’t be alone very long. Soon church buses and Disaster Relief trucks, trailers and volunteers will be pouring into Mayfield. We aren’t only better together, we grieve together, stick together, serve together, and rebuild together.
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Just watched 40 soldiers returning from Iraq meet their families in baggage claim. Including children they had never seen. I’m done for the day.
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Maskless on a plane for the first time in 2 years. Thinking seriously about relocating
@IMB_SBC
headquarters to Eastern Europe.
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And now from Arkansas: Hebron Baptist, a church of 45-50 people, has given $27,153 to the Lottie Offering!!!
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George & Geraldine, longtime
@IMB_SBC
missionaries to Uganda, wept as they shared with us about God’s healing, the prayers of God’s people, and the provision of Southern Baptists for his medical care for
#COVID19
. They asked that I express their gratitude.
#ThisistheSBC
#WhySBC
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Today is good day for the Kingdom and a bad day for hell as 212 adults & kids, Southern Baptists' newest missionaries, begin 7wks training to go overseas. After delays due the pandemic, we're moving forward, following relevant guidelines. Pray with us for their health & learning.
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Protecting children and families is one of Send Relief's five ministry focus areas. As our convention seeks ways to improve in this area, guard against sexual abuse, and minister to victims of abuse, Send Relief is pleased to be part of the solution.
NEW:
@DrPaulChitwood
,
@kevezell
and
@bryantwright
released a joint statement announcing Send Relief's commitment of $3 million that the
@SBCExecComm
estimates it needs to carry out
#SATF
reforms being recommended to the SBC messengers at
#SBC22
.
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Believer’s baptism by immersion is nonnegotiable for Southern Baptists, no matter where we work nor what what the mercury says.
A recent picture from the field worth a thousand words.
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We heard about the worst of our denomination on Sunday.
Today, we commission 76 adults & kids to the nations with the gospel and see our denomination at its best.
This is why we can’t walk away nor turn away from the reality of abuse nor abuse victims.
Too much is at stake.
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Heartbreaking day at the Ukrainian border with bus loads of women and children fleeing the war.
#PrayForUkraine
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Had some time today with
@IMB_SBC
kids heading with their parents overseas. They were excited to tell me where they are taking Jesus among the nations! I���m so thankful for Southern Baptists who love and support these families
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#SBC23
will do today what we did 178 years ago and haven’t stopped doing since: appoint & send new missionaries to the nations. Those missionaries will beat at the gates of hell demanding release of those for whom Christ has died.
Why we came together and why we stay together.
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Marking 1st anniversary as
@IMB_SBC
president today. So many thoughts but these rise to top: 1)God has blessed Southern Baptists with stewardship of the greatest missionary sending organization in the world, the reach & legacy of which is astounding, 2)the task remains unfinished
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Southern Baptists have now given over $5.5 million through
@IMB_SBC
@sendrelief
for relief efforts in the
#UkraineRussiaWar
. As the needs continue to grow, we are delivering food into Ukraine on a daily basis.
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Last year, Southern Baptists gave the second highest
@IMB_SBC
Lottie Moon offering in history. This year, the total is running just ahead of last year. I thank God for a people who desire to see the gospel preached to all nations!
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Update—missionary is now on a medevac flight to a hospital able to provide advanced care. Thank you for your continued prayers.
Asking for urgent prayers for one of our missionaries overseas who is hospitalized in critical condition with Covid.
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Congratulations to our oldest daughter, Anna, for acceptance into the
@uofl
Doctor of Nursing Practice program in Acute Care!
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She’s been at my side since 8th grade graduation and now for 3 graduate degrees, this one from
@NotreDame
@NDBusiness
. She has a few degrees of her own. Thankful
@MichellChitwood
for your support & sacrifice!
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Southern Baptists crossed a significant milestone this week as their
@IMB_SBC
missionary candidate pipeline hit 1,101. First time over 1,100 in years!
#CallingOutTheCalled
#Sending
#ForTheNations
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In the slums and cities, in the jungles and on the plains, in the provinces and on the plateaus, there are billions waiting to be reached, and the Lord of the harvest has called us to the fields. To the fields we must go!
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.
@Vol_Football
quarterback
@henhook2
and brother use NIL money to produce children’s book on Scripture 🍊🍊🍊
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She checked the “yes” box in 1983 and said yes at the altar in 1993. Not sure if that qualifies for 37 years or 27 years but I’ll take til death do us part. Happy anniversary
@michelechitwood
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When you bring experienced kids into the exhibit hall, you better bring an extra suitcase
#SBC22
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March 31 is Easter.
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.” Galatians 6:7
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President Donald Trump Will Sign Executive Order Sunday to Defund International Planned Parenthood
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Thankful to be at the
@IMB_SBC
seminary in Uganda where ministers from across Africa are being equipped to plant and lead churches so the lost can be saved and God’s glory declared among the nations
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Kentucky girl receives Christmas gift she wanted most, a family of her own
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Southern Baptists have now helped more than 400 families with repairs to their homes after the
#BeirutExplosion
and shared the gospel with many by their generosity through
@sendrelief
@SBCCP
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45 retiring
@IMB_SBC
missionaries representing a total of 1,244 years service, average of 27.6 years per person, serving in 40+ countries. Thank you, Lord, for the beautiful feet of these who proclaimed the Good News!
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Is the rising generation passionate about taking the gospel to the nations? Judging from this stack of
@IMB_SBC
volunteer application cards filled out by
@CROSS_con
participants, yes, I’d say so!
#CROSS19
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After a few weeks of commuting to Richmond from Kentucky while we finished up adoption and other affairs, we’re following a moving truck tonight. Got work to do!
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Just met a little Ukrainian girl who had her 8th birthday party in the fellowship hall of one of our Baptist churches.
But that church is in Romania and that fellowship hall is where she now lives as a refugee. That’s the pastor carrying the cake 💔
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Final totals for 2019-20 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering: Southern Baptists gave the 2nd highest offering in IMB's 175 year history, blowing past the goal by $4.5 million and giving $159.5 million to share Christ among the nations!
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Back to preach at the first church where I was called to serve as pastor 27 years ago this very week. Thankful for the saints of South Fork Baptist Church who shepherded us more than we shepherded them.
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Aside from all else that transpired in the USA & world yesterday, 154,937 people died. From all indications, they didn’t believe the gospel. Many had never even heard the gospel. Without Christ, eternity is spent in hell.
May this, Southern Baptists, be our greatest concern.
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Letter from a Georgia pastor of a church running 16 in attendance during the Lottie season that set a goal of $1000 but gave over $2100 to get the gospel to the nations.
In his words, “To God be the glory!”
Amen. Among the nations.
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Yes, Judge
@DerwinWebb
, we pledge to be father and mother to Lilly. And we are thankful to have so many family and friends here to celebrate!
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Thank you, Southern Baptists, for send your missionaries to the nations!
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As I’ve been saying for years, when the
#GreatCommission
isn’t the lead topic of conversation in the SBC, the other topics divide us.
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A Chinese Southern Baptist congregation in Los Angeles, Mandarin Baptist Church, set a Lottie offering goal of $330,000 and is coming in at $412,000. An incredibly generous church with a heart for the nations!
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Met online with Yaroslav Pyzh, president of Ukraine Baptist Theological Seminary. They continue to house refugees on campus & coordinate relief efforts as bombs fall. He expressed how grateful he is for the support of Southern Baptists through
@IMB_SBC
@sendrelief
in these days.
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A pastor just sent me this pic. Three kids in his church have been baking and selling their goodies to raise money for the Lottie Moon Offering.
Don’t tell me the next generation doesn’t have a heart for the nations!
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Daniel & I worked on a solution to Florida’s feral hog problem last night
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Blessed to be with 52 new IMB missionaries just weeks away from deployment. This bright young lady is 1 of 9 new journeyman. ALL females. I thanked God for these bold, courageous young ladies. I asked God to give us more young men whose hearts beat for the nations to go with them
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High-water mark for Lottie offering was 2016 as Southern Baptists grieved over 1200 missionaries coming home & wanted to help. It’s a long wait until the end of the fiscal year on Sept 30 but early returns suggest floodgates of generosity have reopened.
Let the nations rejoice!
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Over the last 10 years, under the leadership of
@DannyAkin
,
@SEBTS
has provided more than $5,000,000 in scholarships for persons serving the
@IMB_SBC
. That's impressive.
#forthenations
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THIS!!! Thank you SOUTHERN BAPTISTS!!!
You heard it here first! The Lottie Moon Offering will hit an all-time high. In today's trustee meeting,
@DrPaulChitwood
gave a preview of how Southern Baptists are rallying around the world's greatest problem. We're grateful for your generosity!
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We have no less than 7 requests right now at
@IMB_SBC
for PhD's who are called to equip among the nations. Go to
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Catching 5:09am flight with
@MichellChitwood
to New Orleans to visit
@IMB_SBC
missionary who arrived at the hospital Saturday on a medevac flight from Kenya where he’d been hospitalized since January with
#COVID19
.
Many of you prayed. God gave a miracle.
#ThisistheSBC
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Today
@IMB_SBC
received the second largest single gift from an individual in our 178 year history. We praise God for Mrs. Ledbetter’s legacy and her planned estate gift to support missionaries taking the gospel to the nations!
Thankful for the life of Joy Ledbetter, who devoted her life to missions education in Arkansas. Her legacy lives on with a $4.8 million check presented in today's chapel service by the
@So_Bapt_Fndn
to help missionaries around the world share the gospel.
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.
@MichellChitwood
took her early retirement today after 20 years in the classroom to accept the next assignment God has given us in the journey of missions mobilization. I’m grateful for a wife who follows Him and tags along with me.
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3 years ago today
@MichellChitwood
& I answered the call to serve Southern Baptists & their missionaries through
@IMB_SBC
. Unimaginable privilege to be part of stewarding the Rev7:9 vision of every nation, all tribes, peoples & languages standing before the throne and the Lamb.
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133 adults & 54 kids begin 7 weeks of Field Personnel Orientation tomorrow in preparation to serve Southern Baptists by carrying out the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations.
Pray they arrive healthy, stay healthy & are trained well for cross-cultural mission work
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91% of IMB missionaries work among the unreached (less than 2% evangelical Christian).
In 2020, IMB & our Baptist partners engaged 1400 people groups & places, 82.3% being unreached.
55 unengaged people groups-currently NO known evangelical Christians or churches-were engaged.
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I’m wondering if the former president of a Baptist university who told me that no one still believes Jonah was swallowed by a whale has seen this? 😂
Massachusetts lobster diver survives being swallowed by whale: 'I was completely inside'
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8th grade dance, senior prom, silver anniversary. The only valentine I’ll ever need.
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Today IMB commissioned 1st missionaries from a Burmese SBC church. Adoniram Judson wrote, “We cannot expect to do much in such a rough, uncultivated field; yet if we may…prepare the way for others it will be a sufficient reward.”
To the Golden Shore now from the Golden shore!
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A new group of Southern Baptist missionaries convened last week at IMB for 7 weeks of pre-deployment training. They spent the last 2 days sharing the gospel in the Richmond area. Total of 273 people fully heard the Good News, 46 want to learn more, and 9 professed faith in Jesus!
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Gave her my junior high football jersey when we were 14. I was smarter than I thought I was. Celebrating 25th anniversary today!
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Tonight we honored 800 IMB emeritus missionaries. They are amazing. Absolutely amazing.
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“It is time-past time-to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores & bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues & mosques.”
-SCOTUS Neil Gorsuch
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Thankful for God’s provision and protection of every
@IMB_SBC
missionary today. And grateful for all who pray for those 3,635 adults and 2,700+ kids every day.
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Dr. Rebekah Naylor has given her life to get the gospel to the nations through healthcare. We as Southern Baptist owe her a great debt, as she has been obedient to where the Lord calls for the sake of the lost & to solve the worlds greatest problem for over 50 years.
@IMB_SBC
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Our missionary has arrived in the city hospital and is in the ICU receiving care. Grateful for the prayers & concern expressed by so many!
Update—missionary is now on a medevac flight to a hospital able to provide advanced care. Thank you for your continued prayers.
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I was an
@SBTS
student b/f
@albertmohler
was president. Since none of the faculty from pre-Mohler days I recall are still teaching 27 years later, yes, the faculty members laid off as a result of
#Covid_19
are all theological conservatives, as is every remaining faculty member.
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52 more pairs of beautiful feet, called of God and sent by Southern Baptists, to take the Good News to the nations through
@IMB_SBC
.
What an incredible night of celebration!
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By year’s end, Southern Baptists’ missions giving through
@SBCCP
to reach every state, this nation, and every nation will cross the cumulative threshold of $20 billion. It all started right here in 1900.
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Pray for your IMB missionaries today as they are on the attack and under attack.
“We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against authorities, against cosmic powers over this present darkness, against spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places” (Eph6:12)
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Lord, give us more like him!
August Lovegren grew up as a Southern Baptist missionary kid in East Asia and then served 34 years with IMB in the Middle East. At age 100, he is the oldest emeritus at our Celebration of Emeriti event this week.
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Home just in time for a neighborhood relocation project
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First IMB missionary family arrived in Nigeria in 1849 and proclaimed the gospel 2yrs before the 1st person believed. There are 10,000 Baptist churches in Nigeria today.
Thank you Southern Baptists for generations of faithfulness in sending & supporting missionaries to Nigeria!
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