2024 Global Encounter Info | International Ministries

Thank you for celebrating International Ministries’ 210th anniversary during the Global Encounter on May 21 & 22!

We were blessed to see everyone’s faces and interact with you through trivia, prayer, worship, and shared mission moments from global servants and partners. Our evening and morning sessions of the Global Encounter allowed us to connect with people worldwide, in different time zones and countries.

During the online, live-translated event, we welcomed hundreds of registrants and watch parties. It was a joy to see the cross-cultural gatherings of friends, families and congregations, and we were thrilled to feature some of you!

You, our friends and ministry partners, are an essential part of how we have responded together for good in God’s mission for centuries and will continue to do so. Thank you for your prayers and continued support.

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CELEBRATING 210 YEARS OF GLOBAL MISSION WITH CHURCHES AND PARTNERS

We loved meeting people who have a passion to share their faith with other people. We loved being encouraged by others to follow our dream!

– Gordon and Lee Ann Hwang

For someone heading out for the first time, Hear the Call is a great way to gather information and hear stories as you consider what God is calling you to do.

– Ann & Bill Clemmer

One day of giving provides technology and training to engage students in their learning style so they feel proud and sucessful.

– Faya Yarbrough

One day of giving can uplift the lives of Banjara children, lead them to Christ and give them hope.

– Alemla & Lanu Ao

One day of giving can give physcial and spiritual nourishment to less-reached people in the southern Philippines.

– Aaron & AmyEstelle Trout

One day of giving creates trainings and equips church leaders to serve with creativity and care.

– Mylinda Baits

One day of giving provides a domestic abuse survivor, and her children, a new beginning.

– Deliris Carrión-Joseph

One day of giving can pay for a semester of college education for a migrant growing roots in Tijuana.

– Moise Carrión-Joseph

One day of giving allows us to share the gospel and love of God with others in their native language.

– Stacy & Tim Reese

One day of giving can change our address to Oaxaca, Mexico so we can continue long-term ministry there!

– Luis & Sarah Matos

One day of giving will help build a Haitian church for Creole-speaking people to hear the good news.

– Kihomi Ngwemi & Nzunga Mabudiga

One day of giving provides refugees with food, water and shelter so they experience God’s love and care on their journey.

– Ray Schellinger

One day of giving equips leaders where they are to take the good news to their communities.

– Mercy González-Barnes

One day of giving provides a rainwater harvesting system that can change an entire community’s well-being.

– Dwight Bolick

One day of giving trains mentors to serve in the Talita Cumi Girls’ Clubs spreading across Latin America.

– Barbara Bolick

One day of giving can help families return to their homes and rebuild what was lost in the Thailand floods.

– Katrina & Kyle Williams

One day of giving can help create retreats and conferences for missionary kids so they can be world-changers in God’s mission.

– Debby Witmer

The best thing about being an MK is all the different cultures. I think we get a better understanding of every different person, and we can understand them better.

– Ruth Stanton

I get to explore around a lot of new places--and make new friends!

– Gavin Juanes

I love how you can find traces of this culture all around the world.

– Andrew Good

I just love talking to people. It's like almost something I consider a love language - knowing someone and then someone caring enough to know about you. I think a lot of MKs do that.

– Nat Reed

Now that I'm older, I can really appreciate how much it's made me, me.

– Dani Bonilla-Giovanetti

I feel like being an MK helped me have the base and the tools - and then being out on my own really helped me develop that relationship with God; personalize that and build on those foundations.

– Nora Elisabet Kalkman

These kids are as much missionaries as their parents are; they're speaking into people's lives just as much, and they can't properly do that if they don't have good spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health.

– Julia Boardwell

“Two hundred and ten years later, Growing Healthy Churches is thankful for the many International Ministries global servants who have committed their lives to the work of mission, evangelism and of sharing the gospel.”

– Growing Healthy Churches

“We praise God for the work God has done through International Ministries over the past 210 years! It is one thing to accomplish a mission once, over a short period of time. It’s an entirely different endeavor to sustain faithfulness to a mission over centuries.”

– American Baptist Churches Central Region

“May God continue to bless the work of International Ministries and may its commitment always be to engage God’s mission in God’s way throughout the world.”

– American Baptist Churches of Maine

"Wishing you another year filled with gratitude for the past, faith and devotion for the future. We are honored to be a part of God’s mission to bring about God’s Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven."

– Baptist Convention of South Africa

"We are extremely appreciative of the strong and supportive partnership provided by International Ministries which has made a critical contribution to our mission over the past decades."

– IBTS

"SAT-7 is grateful to co-labor with International Ministries in the Lord's work to share the gospel, to disciple new believers in the richness of the Word of God, and to assist the Church in working toward God's justice and peace."

– SAT-7 USA

"May our Lord Jesus Christ pour out abundant blessings in the work that International Ministries has developed in the world including Latin America and the Caribbean. A work that for 210 years has proclaimed the word of the Lord, but has also activated faith through the management of social projects to benefit the most needy sectors."

– Christian Community Aid Association

"The North East Christian University wishes you a successful and joyful Anniversary celebrations and pray that God will continue to watch over you and empower you in His ways."

– North East Christian University

“On this anniversary, we join you in gratitude to God for His goodness and mercy throughout so many years of faithful ministry of International Ministries, gratitude that we want to extend to International Ministries for their determined support of Baptist theological education in Spain…”

– Theology of the Baptist Union of Spain

“We want to express our best wishes to International Ministries on May 21, you will be celebrating the 210th anniversary, demonstrating your hard work in proclaiming the Kingdom of God of justice, peace, and abundant life.”

– CEPAD Nicaragua

“To God be the Glory! Our precious partner, International Ministries, congratulations on the occasion of your 210th anniversary. We are so grateful for the invitation extended to us; this is a great honor to be part of the family experiencing the transformational move of God in times like this.”

– All Africa Baptist Fellowship, Baptist World Alliance

“We rejoice together with you and our sisters and brothers for God's faithfulness and service of International Ministries around the world for 210 years. It is God’s grace and all the glory belongs to God alone for all your efforts in any part of the world.”

– Baptist Union of Croatia

“At this time, we would like to take the opportunity to congratulate you on reaching the remarkable milestone of 210 years of service and dedication. It is truly impressive to see how, over the decades, they have continued to be a beacon of hope and love in the midst of a world that is often shrouded in darkness.”

– Asociación de Femenil Bautista de El Salvador

“With thanksgiving to the Almighty God, I am most delighted to send this letter of congratulations on behalf of the Myanmar Baptist Convention (MBC) on this grateful occasion of the 210th anniversary of the International Ministries…”

– Myanmar Baptist Convention

“On this special date for the 210th Anniversary, the entire Argentina Baptist Association community congratulates and wishes the richest blessings to all its members, each attendee or leader at the Global Encounter.”

– Asociación Bautista Argentina

"With great joy and rejoicing, the Board of Directors of the Fraternity of Baptist Churches of Cuba congratulates you for reaching your 210th anniversary, a time that by far commitment and responsibility they have known how to dedicate to education and training of people where testimony, solidarity actions and therefore arrive with simplicity of heart to cultivate love for justice and hope."