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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 theory, pre-field preparation, or...

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 closest we have come to Africa is...

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 Eastern brother’s response left all the...

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 island where they had come to live and...

The custom of giving gifts to celebrate the birth of Christ is probably traced back to the fourth century. It is indeed most likely based on a non-Christian custom from the Roman Empire. However, it is possible to contextualize most things and make them Christ-centered, ...

Someone has said that change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of the change itself. The possible pain of not changing can simply be in the form of lost income, the lack of progress in our lives, poor health et cetera, ...

Plant churches in America? There’s a church on every corner now! We ought to be helping them!” Ever heard anyone say that? I have. I understand why some folks might feel that way. There are a lot of churches in America that are struggling. Many are on death’s door. Should we...

I like to think about the future. Potential, possibilities, and dreams for what tomorrow could be ignite my imagination and really light my fire. But you can’t divorce tomorrow from yesterday. In fact, if there had been no yesterday, if there hadn’t been pioneers and dreamers and...