Category: Cooperative Program

Vergil and Kelsey Brown planted a successful church in Portland. Ten years later, God called them to plant a new church in another, very different part of the city.  In this new location, Christianity is foreign to most residents, but many people are curious about spiritual topics.  Redemption Church has a passion for sharing the…

IMB missionaries Don and Pam Lynch live and serve in Belgium. The country ranks high on the number of suicides, people suffering from depression, and percentages of people who take antidepressants.  “If you have no hope for the future, you don’t have anything to look forward to. Life is either a great adventure or a…

God led Brandon and Ellen Hembree to start Impact Church when they became burdened for all the people coming to the Washington D.C. area who needed to hear the Gospel.  Not long after the Hembrees started Impact Church, the Afghan refugee crisis gave them the unique opportunity to share the love of Jesus with people…

When Marty and Chandler were on the field, they saw intentional discipleship lead to church planting and multiplication in a refugee camp in the Middle East. They felt led to try this strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa, since it has been identified as the future epicenter of Christianity.  Marty trains seminary students to carry the gospel…

God showed Myatt that his hometown of Cleveland had a genuine need for Bible-believing churches. Myatt planted King’s Cross Church in the fastest-growing neighborhood in downtown Cleveland.  In fact, the first baptism at King’s Cross Church was a Brazilian woman who had a faith that was dormant before God stirred her heart. She had attended…

It was the first service as a church and excitement showed on everyone’s faces. They’d been working up to this moment for months.  Kimberly Windham, an IMB missionary serving in Zambia, looked around, and her heart leapt with joy. This was church in its purest form—believers gathered to worship God and learn His truths directly…