Week of Prayer

The Week of Prayer is annually observed by SBC churches to pray for missionaries, their ministries and their families. Prayer is the fuel for spiritually sustaining missionaries in places where the gospel is greatly needed, but often opposed.

The official dates are the last Sunday in November through the first Sunday in December. Your church can choose this date or another time during the Christmas season to participate.

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Day One

Churches connect with missionary task
Central America and the Caribbean

Tim and Tina Louderback and Sean and Shelley Blacksten are passionate about equipping and connecting churches with opportunities to serve in Central America and the Caribbean. The Louderbacks and the Blackstens serve with the International Mission Board in Panama, and the Louderbacks lead the Americas Connect program.

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Day Two

Missionaries welcome efforts to push back darkness
North Africa and Middle East

The mission strategy of Henderson Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma was forever changed when their missions pastor read a statistic: “5% of missions work is done in North Africa and Middle East.” After reading this startling fact, Mike knew the Lord was calling him to lead his church in reversing the statistic in their own mission strategy.

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Day Three

Couple equips Hispanics and Latinos in South Asia
South Asia

IMB workers Skip and Kim Meyer* have spent their lives on two very different mission fields but with the same purpose: giving hope to people who need it and equipping others to do the same.

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Day Four

West Africans take lead in sharing Bible stories
Sub-Saharan Africa

Mrs. Lombena transitions with ease from the standard West African greetings into the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery.The Togolese man listening to the story is quickly attentive to her vivid storytelling. What follows is a lively discussion about the truths and implications of the Bible story she had crafted into his native tongue.

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Day Five

Turkmen search for security, hope
Central Asia

Critically broken. These words describing the lives of Turkmen families are heavy with the weight of millions of hard choices.

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Day Six

Prayer and miracles transform
Southeast Asia

Stephen and Erin Spencer* minister in a region of Southeast Asia where tribal warfare is ongoing, civil unrest is on the rise and foreigners are blacklisted from entering certain regions. However, the good news is entering homes and hearts. One of these hearts is a woman who goes by the name “Momma.”

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Day Seven

Taiwanese believers commit to global spread of gospel
East Asia

When IMB missionary Jeremiah Farmer* moved to Taiwan, he recognized a need in the churches—no one was being sent out as missionaries.

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Day Eight

Churches grow and multiply in Czechia
Europe

When Larry and Melissa Lewis and their family moved to Czechia in 2009 as IMB church planters, they knew they had tough job ahead. Only 29% of the population acknowledges the existence of a god and less than 1% choose to follow Jesus. In fact, Czechia is well known for being the most irreligious country in Europe.

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