Category: Cooperative Program

As International Mission Board missionary Patrick Stein wondered what it would take to get people as engaged in Bible stories as they were their phone, an idea took shape: why not create oral Bible stories for phones? Because many people use headphones or earbuds, no one would know what they were listening to — creating…

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, God led Juhyun and Mijung Park to start a church in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver. Although he knew it would be a difficult time to start a church, he recognized that the need for the Gospel was urgent. The Parks started the new multi-ethnic congregation in the…

Teaching Zambians to plant churches and transform lives with the Gospel is Randy and Kimberly Windham’s passion. Seventeen new churches have started in and around Lusaka, Zambia. Randy explains the first step is Gospel access or entry into a community. They pray for people whose lives God is already working in to enter the picture…

In 2023, the IMB launched a new initiative, Project 3000, to engage 3,072 unengaged and unreached people groups. Ray Henry Holiday is in the pioneering group of Project 3000 explorers. The Tennessean travels with a national partner to remote areas in South Asia for six weeks at a time to live among one of his…

IMB missionaries Justin and Michaela Knippers jump into the virtual world—a video game simulating reality. The couple finds a spot to chill in a virtual backyard. In the back corner, Justin sees some friends around a fire pit and presses his controller forward to walk over. Within minutes, he shares an insight from Scripture. “Virtual…

Consider this picture of lostness from Belgium: A big blue bear sits on a park bench, arm extended to the side as if inviting people to come and talk. While people sit and talk to the inanimate bear, International Mission Board missionaries Don and Pam Lynch park a bicycle cart, start a generator and turn…