International Mission Board’s videos highlight missions stats

March 22, 2021

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – A new collection of nine videos featuring statistics from each of the nine global affinities mapped out by Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board (IMB) is now available. The videos use data collected from IMB’s most recent Annual Statistical Report, which contains information from the nine IMB affinities and reports on the six components of the missionary task: entry, evangelism, discipleship, healthy church formation, leadership development, and exit to partnership. To view all nine videos, which can be downloaded and used for missions studies at church and home, visit https://vimeo.com/imbmissions/videos/search:ASR/sort:date.

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