Author: mnwibaptist
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Airenakhue & Obaidiku Aimievbo
Airenakhue and Obaidiku Aimievbo planted The Impact Baptist Church to reach the growing population of immigrants in northeast Calgary. Around 70 percent of the community around the church are not Christians, with many practicing as Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. The Aimievbos encourage their church to reach out to the community through personal evangelism, visiting houses…
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Trevor Yoakum
“How do we become a healthy, biblical church?” two Togolese men asked International Mission Board missionary Trevor Yoakum. Each leading groups of believers in Togo, they desired their groups to go to the next level “so that the church is a true church of Jesus Christ.” Yoakum was happy to help, and as a professor…
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Fred & Damaris Castro
Long Branch, New Jersey is a diverse community with people from a variety of Hispanic backgrounds, including both European-Portuguese and Brazilian backgrounds. God led Fred and Damaris Castro here, a couple with a passion to reach internationals, to plant Redemption Church among the Hispanic community. Redemption Church is seeing God change the lives of people…
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Lena Eckhart
Eight women squeezed into the small private room at the mall. One held out her arm to International Mission Board missionary Lena Eckhart* who squeezed out a thin line of henna, a traditional plant dye used by many women in South Asia. The women hid in this room at the mall for fear of anyone…
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Carlton & Cornelia Walker
Have you ever been to a prayer meeting that went 50 miles an hour? International Mission Board missionaries to Japan, Carlton and Cornelia Walker, go to one every Tuesday morning while riding on a train around Tokyo. The prayer team rides the JR Yamanote Line that makes 30 stops on a loop around Tokyo and…
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Gregory & Chanelle Barnes
Gregory and Chanelle Barnes started Love Light City Church in a working-class, racially diverse part of Baltimore, Maryland. Historically, the area’s diversity has made unity difficult. Gregory says the community is overcoming this difficult racial history. Love Light City Church has connected with many local organizations and schools to learn about ways they can serve…