East Asia

Editor’s Note: Thank you, Southern Baptists, for your commitment to the missions’ effort through your support of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. I...

The Shreveport Summit has ended. The banners have been pulled down and the cars have all left the parking lot. Most would probably agree, though, that the Summit was a marker of new beginnings...

This is part two of a two-part series about Tian, a convict who escaped execution, became a believer, and was paroled from prison. Tian’s Call to Ministry One night, around the dinner table, Tian*, the former convict, shared his testimony with two American believers. ...

A Convict Escapes Execution About twenty years ago, Tian* and three other men committed a crime punishable by death. His friends were captured, put through a speedy trial, and immediately executed. Tian eluded capture for two years...

The American workers in East Asia had just settled into their taxi when the woman leaned forward and gently asked the taxi driver in his own language, “Do you know Jesus?” The driver considered this question a few seconds before proudly replying, “No, but I know Johanna!” The workers alterna...

For most Americans, Christmas is a time of gathering with family, but for more and more Southern Baptists, Christmas is a time to bundle up and head over to Asia to share Christ with those who have not heard the name of Jesus...

Tuesday, November 10 is the date of this month’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (DPF), but we invite you to pray for our focus city or upg all month long. ...

Looking for a new way to make an impact on the world’s lostness, in 2006, Curt Green* of Northwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, attended an IMB East Asian Missions Conference. ...

Tuesday, October 13 is the date of this month’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (DPF), but we invite you to pray for our focus city or upg all month long. The Shui People The Shui (pronounced shway) is an unreached people group (UPG) of Guizhou province, China. ...

When Jay Lincoln* was called to go out as a fisher of men**, he probably had no idea that he would end up casting his net in a place called Big Fish Village...

They are not your typical volunteer team. All of them are taking a semester off of studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to share Christ in Taiwan, and they are doing so by playing Blue Grass music to gain access to the hearts of lost people...

Imagine moving to a new city, a large city. Imagine that there are no Christ-exalting, Bible-believing, gospel-preaching churches anywhere in this city. Imagine that it’s your task to start one. That’s who we are: church-planters in Asia. So what’s our strategy? It’s pretty simple. We be...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BP)–Ruth Bruffey first came to the Deaflympics games in 1961 as a track and field athlete with the U.S. Deaflympic Team. This year, Bruffey returned to the Deaflympics to tell others about Jesus. ...

Sapporo, Japan Sapporo (Sah-ppoh-roh) is a city of 2 million people located on Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Hokkaido is an island originally occupied by the indigenous Ainu and is considered a pioneer area, its Japanese history being relatively short compared to the rest of Japan...