December 2007

Videos and Events

Mission Projects

People Group Focus

Prayer Points

Stories from the Field

Persecuted Church

Missions Bible Study

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Spring Break Projects!

Go to exotic places for Spring Break this year and bring back incredible stories to tell your friends! Here's how: serve God on misson this spring break and leave your mark on the world.

You can serve God in Poland, China, Serbia, Niger, Azerbaijan, Greece, Czech Republic, Peru, Hungary, Russia, Nigeria, Slovenia, or Ghana!

Projects are filling up fast, so apply today!

 View all spring break projects here!

 

Videos and Events

Innocent Victims
Everyone in Uganda, whether young or old, has lost a parent, a sibling, a child or a friend to AIDS. Baptists in Uganda give a reason to hope.

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Thanks for your Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® Gifts!
Your IMB missionaries around the world are grateful for your generosity in giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®. Journeyman Brooke Brandon tells how your giving has made a difference in her ministry in Thailand.
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Students, tell your student minister, friends, and parents to log on so you all can be part of the most comprehensive study of Baptist youth ministry ever done.

Registration opens Feb. 1, 2008 at www.sbcstudents.com/annualsurvey


LMCO thanks from West Africa

Shadrach, a Journeyman in West Africa, says thanks for helping the Zerma people of have the Bible in their language for the very first time through your gracious gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.®

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More videos on commissionstories.com and thetask.org.


Mission Projects

Olympic Prep - Sports & Arts
China
3/10 -19/07
Coffee House Band
Poland
2/28 - 3/13/07
Treasure Hunt
Czech Republic
3/14 - 23/07
IWC Sofia
Bulgaria
6/7 - 14/07
Nehemiah Teams
Philippines
5/26 - 7/19/07
Hands On Broken Lives
South Africa
8/1 - 12/15/07
Hands On - Creative Media Team
Ivory Coast
8/1 - 12/15/07
IWC Chiang Mai
Thailand
7/5 - 19/07
IWC Montevideo
Uruguay
6/14 - 21/07

More projects at thetask.org


People Group Focus: the Songhai, Tamashek, & Fulani peoples of Niger
By a worker on the field
Each of the people groups in this area were once rulers ... at various times.  They have conquered and been conquered.  They have been kings and princes as well as slaves and lower class.  Now the share the common problems of poverty, illiteracy, and lack of development are present in all of Niger.  Read more . . .

IWC is going to Niger!
Read about the project . . .

Apply as an individual particiapant!
Register your student team!


Prayer Points for the Songhai, Tamashek, & Fulani


Pray that the Holy Spirit would move in this area and open ears, eyes, hearts and minds to hear, understand and accept His Word as truth.  

Pray that the people of Ayorou township would realize that there is only one way to have eternal life - to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the One He sent to earth (John 17:3).

Ask God for entire families to follow Christ and for several churches to be birthed in the area. Those churches and families would then spread the news to their families who live in the bush villages!

More Global prayer requests on CompassionNet.


Stories from the Field

China: Reaping the Harvest Lebanon: Khalif's Miracle South Asia: Miracle Baby Turns Three Years Old
Russia: From 'Evil Empire' to Land of Blessing Japan: A Grinding Halt Pacific Rim: Christ Rescues from a Shocking Problem
Thailand: Just the 'Bad Spirit' Kazakhstan: Gulia is an Answer to Prayer West Africa: Possible through the Power of God

Persecuted Church: South Asia

BIHARI MUSLIMS OF INDIA (bee-HAR-ree). An unbelieving man recently beat his brother, a follower of Jesus, and his brother's wife. The man also stopped them from meeting in the place where they and others had been gathering for worship.

"But our brothers and sisters did not give up," writes a prayer advocate for the Muslims of Bihar. "They found a cowshed, and they are meeting there every Sunday. They go early every Sunday to clear the mess and tidy up the place for worship. I thank God for their unfailing faith as they make adjustments at every testing. May God help them grow roots to weather whatever storms come their way. Let us not take for granted the 'luxuries' we are enjoying. There are many things we can be thankful for when we look at the situation of our brethren. Count our blessings and share with the less fortunate."

Learn more about the Bihari Muslims at www.biharimuslims.com


Missions Bible Study: Christmas Thankfulness
By Felicity Watson
This year has brought me a lot to be thankful for and I hope it has brought you many good things, too. You may simply be grateful for the end of another semester, getting you closer to the goal of graduation! Let's practice some loud thanksgiving to God for our blessings and for the lost people groups of the world. Read on to find out how . . .


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