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Our Illinois mission field

Beautiful Church is the name of the congregation planted by Tae Hwang in Evanston a year ago. The church seeks to reach the north Chicago suburb that is home to Northwestern University with its 23,000 students. Tae was born in South Korea and grew up in Texas. He and his wife, Faith, have a son, Caleb. “Pray that God will sustain us in ministry and send a family who could join our church plant,” the pastor requested of Illinois Baptists.

Pray the news: Saving babies

With news reports about increased abortion providers in Carbondale, Fairview Heights, Danville, and Chicago, pray for more pro-life pregnancy resource centers in those cities. Pray for churches to minister Christ’s love to women in crisis pregnancies.

Cooperative Program at work

A Baptist pastor in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, baptizes a truck driver who came to know Jesus Christ through the IMB’s West African Trucker Ministry. IMB President Paul Chitwood reported at the SBC Annual Meeting in June that 728,589 people heard the gospel through Southern Baptist missionaries, including 178,177 new believers and 102,417 baptisms.

Total giving by IBSA churches as of 6/30/23 $2,616,909

2023 Budget Goal to date: $2,823,884

2023 Goal: $6 Million

NATE ADAMS