Jan. 7, 2015 SPECIAL FEATURES
 Light in the darkness: Pictures of the year 2014
The world experienced untold evil, hatred and lostness in many places during the year. But IMB workers and their partners eased pain, brought light and hope and extended Jesus’ love to the nations.  2014 top IMB stories: Global challenges, opportunities
As you read these stories, a sampling of global news for 2014, pray for those who are suffering as well as those who are causing the suffering. Are we willing to offer everyone the opportunity to hear, and to accept that they are redeemable and can have a place in the eternal story of God? Find your place in God’s story.
PRAY
 Praying and planting
When Haitian pastor Ilme Frasier learned witch doctors had settled into the community, he decided to form an evangelical church there. Ilme is a church-planting student of IMB missionary Carlos Llambes, whose wife, Lily, has special insight when it comes to counseling Haitians – she had a brush with a religion similar to voodoo before becoming a Christian. Now, prayer guides their church-planting work.
 Central Asian immigrants meet crushed dreams in the big city
When Central Asian women arrive in the city looking for work, they are often approached by strangers who promise to help. Later, they are trapped in prostitution, abused and unable to escape. IMB workers Denver and Trish Ewing (names changed) offer them the love of Christ and the message of hope. January 2015 is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
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 Church’s journey to embrace begins with prayer
Mark Harrison, missions pastor at Old Town Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, contemplated throwing a dart at the map as he prayed for his church, Old Town Baptist in Winston-Salem, to locate the people group God had for them. Prayer led to the answer.
 California church dedicated to reach Mixteco with gospel
Valley Baptist Church persists in its long-term commitment to reach the Mixteco people in Mexico and in its own backyard. As one member notes, the Mixteco are realizing the church members are not like other people “who sometimes treat them badly” but instead show concern for them and especially want them to know God’s Word.
GIVE
 Tiny cards carry truth
Through your gifts, IMB missionaries Mike and Heather McAfee give Ivorians recordings of biblical truths on postage stamp-sized SD cards.
Read more Lottie Moon at Work stories that show how every dollar makes a difference.  4 ways to help exploited women in Asia
A Skype interview with Belinda Baker (name changed) gave Oklahoma women on retreat a glimpse of lives changed through Belinda’s ministry. They felt compelled to provide funds to keep a bakery — a ministry helping exploited women in Asia find hope — open for another year.
CommissionStories: stories from the Great Commission, January/February 2015
In this edition of the CommissionStories flier, formerly Living Letters, meet the residents of a mobile home park in Georgia who are joyfully giving sacrificially to missions. They know every coin counts — coins they can't really spare.
 Loving the lost of the world through prayer
30-day prayer guide, edition 13
Impact a lost world through intercessory prayer in your personal prayer time, in small groups or with the entire church body. The daily entries are from missionaries serving in every part of the world. The guide is a perfect size for your Bible, pocket or purse.
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