Category: Cooperative Program

Cesár Guzmán started a church at Universidad de Puerto Rico that was markedly different from the darkness and sin that often surround secular college life. A year after planting Iglesia Batista Sobre la Roca, the church opened the Student House near where the church met. The Student House acts as a “home away from home”…

The Cooperative Program has allowed Richard and Karen Lee to show African Americans they have a place and role to play in the missionary task. When churches see missionaries who look like them, they feel represented. African American Southern Baptists aren’t the only people who’ve been surprised to meet them. Tanzanian Christians celebrated their arrival. …

Gatineau sits on the border between the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Ottawa is Canada’s capital city and is on the English-speaking Ontario side. Gatineau is in French-speaking Quebec. Many of the people in Gatineau work in the government in Ottawa but live in Gatineau. To help reach the people of Gatineau, Josias and…

International Mission Board summer missionary, Courtney Mobbs, served in Colombia at a refugee center. She was discouraged at the start of her time there, however, because few refugees would engage. Courtney struggled with her purpose for even being there. One day Courtney was to teach a women’s group, but when it came time to start,…

International Mission Board missionaries Shaun and Joy Price moved to the “castle capital of Europe” to share the hope of Christ with residents in a less than idyllic area to live in.  Then COVID-19 complicated everything. Although there were strict lockdowns and months of isolation, the Price family took every opportunity to reach out in…

Eric and Anna Trout started Restoration Church in Adel, Iowa, to reach people who were far from God. They have seen through acts of service in the community that church members are developing relationships with those they reach, often becoming the first step in getting these new friends into the church and introducing them to…