Category: Cooperative Program

Brad and Jen started Mercy Hill Church to reach a densely populated neighborhood of 78,000 people in a three-mile radius. While it’s a spiritually aware community, few churches exist to share the good news about Jesus. Less than 10 percent of the people in their East Indianapolis neighborhood are connected to an evangelical Protestant church.…

For years, International Mission Board worker Nancy Potter had traveled to teach healthcare classes in an impoverished Muslim village in Southeast Asia where Sela and her husband, Sok, live. But on this visit, Potter’s care and concern led to the couple becoming Christians. One morning, Sela stumbled and spilled a pot of boiling water over…

Matthew felt God’s call to the chaplaincy while he was a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. After the events of 9/11, God began to show him how he could serve his country as he served Jesus through chaplaincy. The team Matthew leads has three primary responsibilities. They care for the…

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…