Author: mnwibaptist
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Randy & Kimberly Windham
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…
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Kody & Lindsey Aten
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…
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Rachel & Anna*
Part of International Mission Board missionary and nurse practitioner Rachel’s ministry in rural Southeast Asia is educating elementary school girls on health. Their families often force these girls to drop out of school by sixth grade to provide more income. Rachel and her IMB colleague Anna, missionary and public health specialist, know they have a…
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Pierce & Casey Bennett*
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…
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Justin & Lacy McKay
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…
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Hands of Hope 2024
Nearly 50 volunteers from churches in Minnesota and Wisconsin gathered at the Church at Wazeecha in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., June 15-21 to work alongside that congregation in impacting their community with the love of Jesus. Three local churches participated: Church at Wazeecha, River Cities Community Church, and First Baptist Church of Wisconsin Rapids. Church at…