Category: Cooperative Program

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…

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…

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…

International Mission Board missionary, Molly Petry, has persevered through years of planting with lean harvest – yet she is trusting God to bring about His harvest in His time. And that trust is slowly paying off among an Unreached People Group in a hard-to-access valley in Central Asia. Petry and her team have been going…

Cody and Kristen Chester are part of a team that planted Christ Community Church South Brevard in Palm Bay, Florida, as part of the vision of First Baptist Church of Melbourne, Florida, to plant 10 churches in 10 years. During the first few weeks after the church launched on Easter 2022, six people came to…