Updated March 31, 2025

Our God has a tender heart for the hurting people of this world. Read updates about our ongoing efforts to deliver gospel-focused relief to those in need: Myanmar earthquake, Ukraine, India, and a Creative Access Nation.  

With so many current needs, your gifts are greatly appreciated by us and especially by those being helped. 

Myanmar Earthquake

All BMM personnel in southeast Asia have reported they are safe after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28, 2025. The quake was felt across a wide area, even as far as Bangkok, Thailand. Millions of lives will be disrupted by widespread damage, including building collapses and disruption of power and communications lines.

BMM’s World Relief ministry is ready to help the hungry and hurting in earthquake-impacted areas. Donations to World Relief directly help affected people and are distributed through BMM missionaries or trusted partners. Please consider a gift to World Relief today. Your partnership not only alleviates physical suffering, but it also gives the hope of the gospel.

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Ukraine

Relief efforts continue amidst the wearying three-year-long conflict in Ukraine. A brave Ukrainian Christian team (contacts of Bibles International missionaries) made several trips into eastern Ukraine in March 2025. In one village, 15 people came to hear the Word of God—half of those left in the village. Many of those remaining in eastern Ukraine are elderly people, and the team delivers to them boxes of relief aid and the hope of the gospel.

The pastor who leads the team said these trips were the most emotionally and spiritually draining of any they have taken, because the war is exacting an increasing toll on lives and property. In spite of this, they preached the gospel to encourage eastern Ukraine’s remaining believers and to challenge others that now is the time to receive Christ. In the pastor’s own church of 14 members, 25-40 people are now coming, and four have received Christ. The church started an evening service and are seeing 20-25 come. Unbelievers are also coming to their weekday Bible study.

Despite the length of the war, your gifts to World Relief for Ukraine are still greatly needed and are greatly used by God to reach people who are literally on the brink of eternity.

Creative Access Nation

In an Asian Creative Access Nation, a wearying civil war has stretched on for several years, forcing many ethnic minorities—most of whom are Christians—to flee to the jungles and mountains for safety. Prior to the conflict, BMM missionaries had worked incountry to translate the Bible and teach literacy in partnership with nationals.

In the absence of missionaries on the ground, national pastors and church planters have been serving as our trusted contacts to provide relief aid to their internally displaced countrymen. Through generous donations, World Relief has provided food, cottages for shelter, and medicine to believers and unbelievers alike. Some of the recipients were blind people who had no way of acquiring food. Like the other recipients, they received sacks of food, cooking oil, blankets, mosquito nets, and tarps. Along with physical relief, our national partners distributed 450 Bibles, 1200 New Testaments, and 1200 Gospels of John and other Christian books.

In one district, the war turned more than 40 villages into battlefields. Our national contacts had previously planted six churches among these villages. When aid was distributed, the unbelieving villagers became interested in knowing about God and salvation. In the last two years, six national missionaries have conducted evangelistic crusades and carried out more than 20 Bible teaching campaigns for the villagers. 

Praise the Lord that so far 98 people have accepted Christ and been baptized. Among believers, the relief made them feel that God remembered and cared for them. These Christians became like missionaries to those around them, sharing God’s goodness even in the jungles.

Can you help?

God never brings suffering without a desire to lead people to salvation or to cause His believers to grow. He is using our missionary teams in these pivotal locations to be a living testimony of His compassion to hurting people. Your gift to World Relief equips them to bring God’s light into their darkness.

Give to World Relief through our Projects page (choose #4).

To give by mail, make checks out to Baptist Mid-Missions Foundation with “World Relief” in the memo line. Mail to:

Baptist Mid-Missions

PO Box 308011

Cleveland, OH 44130-8011


To give by credit card over the phone, call 440-826-3930

Count on us

Our goal is to be ready to bring relief both to Christians and to unsaved people that the Lord wants to touch with the gospel. We honor your contributions by using them to the fullest extent to help those for whom they are given, and for accountability our missionaries send us detailed reports of their use of World Relief funds.

Please keep our missionaries in prayer for wisdom and endurance in their efforts. They want to effectively provide for and comfort the hurting, even while balancing existing ministries in their already-busy schedules.

Thank you for helping us help others in the name of Christ.