International Ministries (IM) has received an emergency relief grant of $8,500 from One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) to respond to the critical needs in Latin America following the deadly volcanic eruption in Guatemala and the violence in Nicaragua.

The Rev. Dr. Lee B. Spitzer, general secretary of the American Baptist Churches USA, in consultation with leaders and global servants from International Ministries, wrote a letter to the Consulate General of Nicaragua in Washington DC to express American Baptist concern over recent events in Nicaragua.

For the WMO mailing this summer, churches will receive a boxed supply of resources based on the quantities that they received or requested for the 2016 WMO. The box will arrive by August 1, 2018, and will include the materials churches need to launch their WMO campaigns in September.