Category: Cooperative Program

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…

The Atens dreamed of starting a new church in 2021. In 2022, Freedom Church began meeting in a local elementary school. When a few complaints began to make the rounds on social media, the church was pressured to leave.  But God began orchestrating a solution. A Methodist church in town had closed, and the church’s…

Pierce and Casey Bennett serve as International Mission Board missionaries in. South Asia. They and their teammates are responsible for ministering to twenty-seven unreached people groups living in remote regions. People living in a remote South Asian village gathered around a screen to watch a video about the rise and fall of mankind and the…

As Justin and Lacy McKay celebrated their new marriage in Denver, Colorado, they looked around and asked a question they couldn’t answer: “Where are all the churches?” As they did some research, they realized Denver was in a Gospel desert and desperately needed more churches. To help engage metro Denver with the Gospel, the couple…

God called Matt and Ruth Lahey to start a church in Kilbride of St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. For many Newfoundlanders, the idea of church is associated with a building. It’s something you attend, not something you are. Church planting in Kilbride isn’t quick and isn’t easy, but the Laheys are committed to the long,…

Jack Wattanawongsawang and his wife, Prinna Puakpong, watched the news on March 11, 2011, documenting the triple disaster unfolding in Japan – the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear power plant meltdown. With no intention to go, Jack and Prinna prayed and asked God to send someone who wasn’t them to tell the Japanese they…