Overview

The International Mission Board is a faith-based nonprofit that sends and supports missionaries to share the Christian gospel, disciple people, and establish churches around the world, especially among unreached groups. It funds and deploys field personnel through the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, so missionaries are fully supported without needing to raise their own funds; on the ground, missionaries conduct evangelism, discipleship, and church planting, and provide humanitarian aid via Send Relief, along with training and security for staff. It stands out as a long-standing church-linked mission network with centralized SBC funding, combining gospel work and humanitarian relief to reach a wide global audience. Its goal is to spread the Christian faith by reaching regions with minimal gospel presence, establishing churches, and growing local disciples and communities through evangelism, discipleship, and compassionate aid.