Category: Cooperative Program

God led Brandon and Ellen Hembree to start Impact Church when they became burdened for all the people coming to the Washington D.C. area who needed to hear the Gospel.  Not long after the Hembrees started Impact Church, the Afghan refugee crisis gave them the unique opportunity to share the love of Jesus with people…

When Marty and Chandler were on the field, they saw intentional discipleship lead to church planting and multiplication in a refugee camp in the Middle East. They felt led to try this strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa, since it has been identified as the future epicenter of Christianity.  Marty trains seminary students to carry the gospel…

God showed Myatt that his hometown of Cleveland had a genuine need for Bible-believing churches. Myatt planted King’s Cross Church in the fastest-growing neighborhood in downtown Cleveland.  In fact, the first baptism at King’s Cross Church was a Brazilian woman who had a faith that was dormant before God stirred her heart. She had attended…

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…