Articles for Outreach & Missions

5 Ways to Pray for Your Church Family in 2020

Here are five ways that we can be praying for our own church family and other churches as well.

May Jesus’ Name Be Known Through Me

How is Jesus' mission accomplished through His people?

4 Countercultural Characteristics of Authentic Community

Mark Howell: "How do you know when something is authentic?" Test its merits.

5 Films (and a Netflix Series) Christians Will Want to See in 2020

The new year has come and with it some exciting new Christian films and a Netflix series to watch. Spanning from love stories to documentaries to inspirational portrayals, these films will take you on a faith journey.

The State of the Immigrant Church

The immigrant church is often the social centerpiece of the immigrant Christian. Where do you go to find jobs? The immigrant church. Where do you find places to live? The immigrant church. Where do you make your friends? The immigrant church.

Jason Thomas Named IMB’s African American Church Mobilization Strategist

Jason Thomas recently joined IMB’s partner relations team as African American church mobilization strategist. In this capacity, Thomas will work with nearly 4,000 African American churches across the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to mobilize pastors and church members to pray, give, go and send.

Christians, Please Be Meek During This Year’s Elections

Being meek on social media may help preserve the priority of our own interpersonal witness in an increasingly sensitive (and watching) world.

Kingdom Politics … Moral Majority or Love-Driven Minority?

Some say that Christians should support one political party and should never support the other. Interestingly, there are people from the left as well as from the right who talk this way. I don’t think kingdom politics are that simple. Let’s talk about a few reasons why, shall we?