Because of your decision to give to DUMPLING: Asian Missionary Sending Initiative, believers in East Asia are becoming missionaries themselves, propelling the gospel to new people and places. Your gift to the DUMPLING fund is used to help get these brothers and sisters to the mission field.  

Your partnership has been instrumental in establishing the world’s first Global Chinese Baptist mission-sending agency, called Huaya International Missions (HIM). The agency was launched in early 2020 to encourage and equip local believers to become missionaries. In addition, three other Baptist Asian sending partners have also joined our effort to send missionaries specifically to partner with IMB teams. These partner-missionaries are “Global Missionary Partners” (GMPs). To date, your giving has helped HIM and these Baptist Asian partners vet and deploy 79 Asian missionaries to 19 countries.  

In 2023, God worked through those 79 GMPs to accomplish the following:  

• 7,181 people heard a full gospel presentation (about double that of 2022) 
• 4,071 new believers came to Christ (about double the number in 2022) 
• 3 churches were established 

Pray for Bo*, sent in December 2023 through your support
“During my first week, I joined a Bible study group immediately with students from different parts of [my location]. I began attending language study classes in my second week. Now, as I reach my fourth week, I am able to venture out on my own to purchase necessities and explore different transportation methods. Although there may be challenges along the way, I am sustained by the grace of God. And I am confident I will experience God more and more. Pray that I am filled with joy as I continue to learn the heart language of these people. Pray for three students we are currently discipling, that they may continue to grow in their faith, even after returning home.”

Upcoming Prayer Needs 

• We are praying to see 35 more GMPs sent to reach unreached, unengaged people groups globally in 2024.  
• We are working with local partners to start another mission agency called Huayu 2.0, specifically for Global Missionary Partners sent from closed countries.  
• We long for more Asian churches to “own” the Great Commission and partner with us in sending more laborers into the harvest!  

Thank you so much for your generosity to the work in East Asia! Your ongoing giving ensures even more laborers will be sent out into the harvest as we start new initiatives and partnerships with Asian churches. We give thanks to God for you! 

Thank you so much for your generous support in equipping Chinese believers to go to the nations. Your prayers and sacrificial gifts have been instrumental in setting up the world’s first global Chinese Baptist mission-sending agency!! Your partnership enables us to mentor new Chinese missionaries and train them to engage other cultures with the gospel in practical but life-changing ways.

HuaYu International Missions (HIM) was established in 2020 through the partnership of several Asian conventions and IMB missionaries, using DUMPLING funds. In partnership with you, HuaYu has been able to:

• Interview, select, and approve 29 local missionaries, called Global Missionary Partners (GMPs).
• Send 20 of these GMPs globally to work with international Christian workers. The other nine are in pre-field training.
• Recruit GMPs from four Asian countries.
• Support the first batch of GMPs as they complete their first term. Seven have applied to return to their assignments long-term!
• Use the DUMPLING partnership as seed money, along with funds from local churches, to help send these brothers and sisters to the field!

God is Working. In addition, three other Baptist Asian Sending partners have also joined in sending GMPs. Combined with these other partners, God is doing miraculous things:

• 50 GMPs vetted and sent
• 27 candidates in training
• 14 countries receiving our GMPs
• 16 mission teams impacted
• 3,179 full gospel presentations
• 1,950 who accepted Christ as Savior
• 48 baptized
• 23 new Bible study groups

Plans to Reach the Nations. We are praying about sending 75 new GMPs from Asia Pacific Rim countries worldwide to reach unreached people groups (UPGs) and unengaged, unreached people groups (UUPGs). So far in 2023, 12 have been sent, and 27 are training and should be sent before Summer. In addition, our national partners are launching “Embrace,” a 6-month mission program to disciple local believers to engage in God’s Great Commission. Finally, a new agency called HuaYu 2.0 seeks to send GMPs from closed countries.

Please continue to pray for the DUMPLING project:

• Pray for the seven GMPs applying to return for long-term mission assignments. Ask God for guidance for those families and the selection committee.
• Pray for the 27 currently in training to be sent by the end of Spring 2023. Pray they will absorb all the learning they need to in order to communicate Christ effectively.
• Pray for more Asian churches to “own” the Great Commission and partner with us in sending laborers into the harvest!

Thank you so much for your generosity. Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” (Matthew 9:37). Your ongoing giving helps ensure that even more workers will be sent out into the harvest.

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Because of your faithful giving and prayers, long-term workers are being sent to those isolated from the gospel.

In the past two years, this project has helped set up a new agency and send 14 new long-term workers in partnership with local Asian churches. A third batch of Asian long-term workers is preparing to go, and as many as 24 will join us for training later this year. We now have local long-term candidates being vetted and sent from five Asian countries representing three local Baptist conventions. All of these are going for 2-to-3-year terms. This year marks the first time this fledgling agency resends one of those long-term workers to serve alongside an IMB team.

In addition, a second local agency is now being created to send long-term workers from “closed” countries that cannot have Baptist conventions. This agency has already approved three families to serve as international missionaries, and several more have signed up. We also partner with local sending agencies from other closed countries to help equip their long-term workers. Crossing cultures is difficult, as is working with an international team. We help these new missionaries thrive in field partnerships that work together to accomplish the Great Commission.

Almost all these long-term workers are serving in closed countries.