Welcome to this issue of mission:world, which we believe will be a blessing as you read Christmas greetings from our missionaries around the world. Please read to the end of this introductory article for some important information about mission:world.

Pioneer Baptist Missionary Association (BMA) missionaries first came to the Philippines in the early 1970s. Back then living in this third world country was rough. Those early missionaries didn’t have the benefit of today’s modern missiological...

Africa is known as “the dark continent,” so titled by author Henry Stanley not because of its inhabitants or socioeconomic status, but because of the mystery it remains for Europeans and Westerners. Let’s be honest, for many in the West the...

Thank you for opening mission:world to see and hear some of the awesome things that God is doing in the nations. Baptist Missionary Association (BMA) Global Missions values multiplication ...

A few years ago, a ministry leader from the Middle East was visiting the U.S. A lunch conversation turned to the topic of persecution. When one of the Americans stated that we simply could not relate to persecution for the faith, our Middle...

It was an ominous moment for the young missionary as he sat with his wife asleep with her head in his lap. They had arrived in the middle of the night at the international airport on one island as they awaited their morning flight to another...