“They could have gone to anyone, but they came to the Jahanka. They could have gone to any village, but they chose our village. They have come with a message from God, and we’re waiting for them to be able to speak our language so we can hear this message that they have brought to us.”
That was what one Jahanka man said of a married couple sent to his village by the International Mission Board (IMB). In many parts of the world, the names of IMB missionaries cannot be released for security reasons, and so this couple has not been identified in the report. The Jahanka of West Africa number only about 60,000, with fewer than 20 known followers of Jesus. But the Southern Baptist missionary couple are winning friends.
This is good news from the recently-released report of 2005 IMB global work. Southern Baptist missionaries and their international Baptist partners baptized more than 475,000 new believers last year, started nearly 23,500 churches and began church planting among 104 people groups for the first time. They also planted churches among 19 people groups where no Baptist churches previously existed -– including 13 peoples with no evangelical churches of any kind.
A major part of our mission dollars at Hillcrest go to support the global efforts of the IMB. See the full story here.
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