 | A people group is waiting for you … An awakening in Cuba … Thank you, Southern Baptists: Lottie Moon offering hits $154 million … Getting the ball rolling in Brazil New hunger campaign launching in Baltimore … Download new song to donate … Rebuilding in Chile … Village-based training meets whole-life needs First person: Missionary couple finds God at work in Abidjan Prayer sustains believers in Venezuela CommissionStories tabloid, Summer 2014 … Use your mobile device in ministry … Free books | | | Your IMB E-Letter
June 9, 2014  A people group is waiting for you
Find your place in God’s story at IMB’s exhibit at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Baltimore June 10-11. Browse a wall of take-away stickers identifying people groups that you or your church can pray for, partner to reach and engage with the Gospel. In addition, take-away cards will help you find ways to provide Scripture resources, meet human needs and share the Gospel through your career. If God is leading you to a specific area of the world, you can talk to people working in that area to learn about its people groups and explore needed ministry projects.
It doesn’t end at the exhibit! A new website, imb.org/one, premiering at SBC, features these people groups and ministry needs. Share this website with your church and find your place in God's eternal story of bringing people to Him. Find more on this year’s SBC annual meeting, including live streaming during the event, at sbcannualmeeting.net Don’t miss the IMB report and presentation beginning at 11:12 a.m., June 10, which you can also watch at imb.org. President Tom Elliff will share about an amazing work in Cuba and introduce Cuban Baptist leaders attending the SBC.  An awakening in Cuba
Cuban Baptists have much to teach us about growing our churches. To read their inspiring stories, visit commissionstories.com/cuba, where you’ll also find videos and a timeline of significant events in the country’s history. To find out how your church can make a similar impact on the world for Christ, go to imb.org/lead.
Read about Cuba also in the summer Commission Stories tabloid. See the Resource section.  Thank you, Southern Baptists: Lottie Moon offering hits $154 million
Southern Baptists gave a record $154 million to the 2013 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, the largest total in the offering’s 125-year history. This is good news for more than 4,800 IMB missionaries worldwide who depend on the offering to fund their efforts to spread the Gospel. IMB President Tom Elliff said, “… Those who give sacrificially and out of concern for the lost can be assured that an enormous portion of all that happens overseas can be directly tied to their support.”
 Getting the ball rolling in Brazil
During a May 26–June 2 mission trip to Brazil, Oklahoma Baptist University women’s soccer team kicked off Baptist outreach efforts surrounding the upcoming FIFA World Cup™. See how OBU players scored victories on and off the field in and around Natal, one of the 12 host cities for the World Cup, June 12–July 13 in Brazil.
 New hunger campaign launching in Baltimore
More than 1 billion people around the world are hungry more often than not, and about 24,000 die every day from hunger-related illnesses. Global Hunger Relief (formerly World Hunger Fund) seeks to take the unique “dollar in, dollar out” message to new and wider audiences and challenge a new generation of believers to personally take Jesus’ love to starving souls, in both word and deed.
The Global Hunger Relief campaign will be supported by a new website, GlobalHungerRelief.com. If you are attending the annual SBC meeting, visit the GHR booth and learn how you can help Syrian refugees as violence and turmoil in Syria continues to escalate. Using GHR funds, IMB and Baptist Global Response are providing food parcels and hygiene kits to families in need. Visit gobgr.org/syria  Download new song to donate
Drew Cline, worship leader/singer-songwriter, has released his newest recording project, “I Am Becoming.” Cline is partnering with Global Hunger Relief by giving $5 from each full-length download to a GHR ministry. Learn more and download his song to give $5 to help GHR feed and care for the least of these all around the world!
 Rebuilding in Chile
Parts of Valparaíso, Chile, looked like a war zone after a deadly fire in April. See how Baptists are helping survivors and how you can get involved.
 Village-based training meets whole-life needs
Ma Mima (name changed) was once an extremely shy woman. Now she leads human needs projects in her village, thanks in large part to leadership and literacy training funded primarily by Southern Baptist gifts to Global Hunger Relief (formerly World Hunger Fund). You can donate to ministries such as this.
 First person: Missionary couple finds God at work in Abidjan
IMB writer Elaine Gaston shares her experience with the McAfees, who were called to Abidjan to serve as urban church planters. Their ultimate hope is to plant a church in every neighborhood — a God-sized task. As they work toward this end, it’s just possible that these city streets that saw so much bloodshed will instead know God’s forgiveness, reconciliation and grace. God is in Abidjan, opening doors for their efforts to speak truth to many who live in fear of curses and darkness.
 Prayer sustains believers in Venezuela
Despite political unrest, escalating violence and economic disparity in Venezuela over the past few months, IMB missionaries and Venezuelan believers are working hard to spread the love of Christ. Learn how you and your church can pray for them – and for the troubled country of Venezuela. “One thing that encourages me is that in no other time in history has so much praying been done for Venezuela,” said an IMB missionary there.
 CommissionStories tabloid, Summer 2014
Learn what it means to be a part of “one sacred effort” and how the prayers and efforts of many have led to an awakening in Cuba, or, as IMB President Tom Elliff puts it, “a fresh wind of God’s spirit blowing across the Caribbean.” Also read about Syria’s children – a lost generation? – and a church where members truly live “sent.” An issue packed with people finding their place in God’s story.
 Use your mobile device in ministry
Mobile devices can be a platform for evangelism and discipleship just like tracts, discipleship materials or DVDs. Today, mobiles are an indigenous device in practically every culture. These devices are with you and with those whom you are trying to reach. Learn more and get free resources.
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