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ICM ICM is The Global Church Developer. We equip churches around the world with vital resources: infrastructure, discipleship tools and training to grow and thrive.

Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram () for more updates! Do you want to reach the world for Christ? We do, too. By equipping indigenous Christian congregations with two vital tools we can make this possible: a permanent church building and practical discipleship for oral learners in their heart language. Our strategy to grow God’s Church is effective because we

build upon existing relationships and resources in the field. The congregations we aid provide the land and labor for each project; our indigenous ministry partners provide oversight and accountability. The result is a sustainable, replicable model of Church growth. In over 30 years, we’ve completed over 11,000 projects in more than 100 countries. Those churches have planted an additional 44,000 congregations in some of the world's most difficult areas. The Church is not a building, but we’ve learned that a permanent church home empowers pastors and congregations in the developing world to reach their own communities for Christ. ICM churches are used every day for small group meetings, medical clinics, orphan care, education, addiction rehab, vocational training, seminaries, and much more. We don’t stop there. We also translate and distribute a practical Bible study to our partners, for free, in over 60 languages. Every week, 45,000 different small groups around the world use these resources to grow their faith. You can help us accomplish our vision for a church within walking distance of everyone in the world. Check out https://icm.org for more info on how you can be a part of what God is doing!

On September 6 of 2020, believers from 200 villages gathered in Chon Daen, Central Thailand, for a public baptism that m...
05/29/2026

On September 6 of 2020, believers from 200 villages gathered in Chon Daen, Central Thailand, for a public baptism that may be the largest in the country's history. 1,400 people made a public confession of their new life in Christ.

One elderly woman entered the water on crutches. One man came in a wheelchair. Many were accompanied by the friend who had led them to Jesus.

This moment didn't happen overnight. It grew from a church that started in a living room in 1984, led by a motorcycle mechanic named Somsak with no theological degree and no formal training. Just a Bible and neighbors willing to listen. That movement now has 18,000 Christians, eight churches built with ICM support, and 200 pastors equipped with discipleship materials.

The 1,400 baptized in Thailand are not the end of the story. With a training center in the works and more house churches being planted every month, they are just the beginning.

Your giving is part of what makes that possible.

👇 See how your support is fueling this movement and others like it around the world.

In 1984, Somsak Rinnasak moved to a rural district in Central Thailand and discovered the nearest church was 80 miles aw...
05/27/2026

In 1984, Somsak Rinnasak moved to a rural district in Central Thailand and discovered the nearest church was 80 miles away. He had a ninth grade education, no theological training, and no financial backing. What he had was a passion for Jesus and neighbors who had never heard the Gospel.

So he started a church in his home. The founding members were himself, his wife, his children, and one elderly Christian woman. They studied the Bible together and began telling their neighbors about Jesus in plain, simple Thai, free of the polished language of Western missionaries. It resonated in ways that decades of formal mission work had not.

The movement grew slowly, then suddenly. When the king of Thailand died in 2016 and Christmas celebrations were forbidden during the national mourning period, church members went from village to village sharing the Gospel. More than 700 people accepted Christ in a matter of days.

Today that movement has 18,000 Christians. ICM has helped build eight permanent churches and equipped 200 local pastors with discipleship materials. In September, 1,400 new believers gathered for what may be the largest baptism in Thailand's history.

It started in a living room. It is nowhere near finished. And your giving is part of how it keeps going.
👇 See how your support is fueling movements like this one around the world.

The before photo tells you everything. Wooden poles holding up a frame covered in black tarp, surrounded by dry earth an...
05/25/2026

The before photo tells you everything. Wooden poles holding up a frame covered in black tarp, surrounded by dry earth and open air. No walls. No windows. Nothing that says permanent. But a congregation gathered there anyway, week after week, because the faith was never in the building.

The after is a permanent church in Mozambique, bright white and solid under an open sky. And the first thing you notice isn't the walls or the roof. It's the children. Exploring. Moving through the space like it already belongs to them, because it does.

That is what a permanent church gives a community. Not just a place to worship on Sundays, but a home base for everything that follows. Discipleship. Community care. A next generation that grows up knowing there is a place for them.

ICM partners with local churches in 111 countries to build spaces worthy of the congregations already inside them. Your giving is what makes that possible.

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Stefan was 14 years old when he gave his life to Christ and felt two things clearly: he was born to pastor, and he was b...
05/22/2026

Stefan was 14 years old when he gave his life to Christ and felt two things clearly: he was born to pastor, and he was born to teach. For years those callings pulled him in different directions. But instead of choosing, he followed both, all the way.

Ordained at 22, he led churches across Western Romania. Then the Holy Spirit kept pulling him toward classrooms, toward students, toward the kind of discipleship that happens inside a university. So he became a Bible teacher in prisons and orphanages. Then a second Master's in Social Work. Then a PhD in Sociology. Today he teaches at universities in Romania and Moldova, supervises dissertations, and builds faith and character into the next generation.

He calls it a double calling. We call it what happens when someone stops negotiating with God and simply says yes.

ICM partners with leaders like Stefan across Eastern Europe and in 111 countries around the world, because the most powerful agents of transformation in any community are the ones already rooted in it. Your giving resources those leaders, equips them with discipleship tools, and gives them room to go further than they could on their own.

👇 See how your support is changing lives across Eastern Europe.

05/19/2026

ICM Weekly Update 5/19/2026 (Like and Follow)
1)Hopebuilders Update
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Look at the first photo. The building is worn, built from whatever materials were available, carrying the marks of years...
05/18/2026

Look at the first photo. The building is worn, built from whatever materials were available, carrying the marks of years and hardship. But inside, a congregation gathered faithfully. They worshipped in what they had because the faith was never about the walls.

Now look at the second photo. A permanent church built from stone. A cross rising above the entrance. And carved into the facade, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. A declaration that the God who sustained this congregation through everything is the same God who will carry them into whatever comes next.

In a country that has known so much loss, a church like this is more than a building. It is a statement of permanence. A sign to the whole community that the Gospel has taken root and is not going anywhere.

ICM partners with local churches in 111 countries to make moments like this possible, not by coming in to do the work, but by equipping the people already doing it.

👇 See how your giving builds churches that stand through everything.

Pastor Oleg grew up in a home where faith was lived out loud. His grandmother prayed fervently for the family's salvatio...
05/15/2026

Pastor Oleg grew up in a home where faith was lived out loud. His grandmother prayed fervently for the family's salvation, and those prayers followed him all the way to Prague, where he now leads a church planting ministry that refuses to put walls around the Gospel.

They started with what they had. Street preaching. Evangelistic events. English language classes. Sports camps for children. Eventually, a preschool opened its doors to children of every background, including kids from Muslim families and homes with no church connection at all. Because that has always been the goal: make the Gospel accessible to everyone.

Then the congregation felt something stirring. A property on the outskirts of Prague. A building shell with nothing inside it. And barely enough money to make it happen. But the Holy Spirit said go, and they went. The Lord miraculously provided, the property was purchased, and the work of completing the building is still underway.

In 2021, in the middle of a global pandemic, ICM established its very first partnership in Czech Republic, coming alongside Pastor Oleg and his congregation as they build a place where the neighborhood will want to gather, and where Jesus will be at the center of everything.

👇 See how your giving supports church planters like Pastor Oleg across Eastern Europe.

05/14/2026

What happens when people expect your whole life to change overnight?
Episode 14 of Looking Under Rocks is out now

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In a small Romanian village, a church started doing something simple after the 1989 revolution: distributing food and mi...
05/13/2026

In a small Romanian village, a church started doing something simple after the 1989 revolution: distributing food and milk to the people in their community who needed it most. Orphans. Widows. Gypsy families. No conditions. No distinctions. Just a congregation that decided the people around them were worth showing up for.

Over time, something shifted that no policy or program had managed to produce. Romanian and Gypsy families who might have remained strangers began to trust each other. To care for each other. Cultural differences that ran deep didn't disappear overnight, but they lost their grip on a community that had found something stronger than division.

The same church volunteers at a nearby clinic for people with lung conditions, bringing elderly patients to Sunday services and sharing a hot meal with them afterward. Their next goal is a Hope Center that would expand everything they are already doing.

They didn't strategize their way to unity. They served their way there. And that changes everything around them.

ICM partners with local churches in 111 countries that are doing exactly this, quietly and faithfully, in communities the world rarely notices.

👇 See how your support makes it possible.

05/12/2026

ICM Weekly Update!
Did you know we have a kids magazine now? Well, here it is! Introducing Hopebuilders volume 1. This magazine was create to educate our future church developers, engage them with stories from the field, and give them activities that would introduce them to new places and people! Visit www.icm.org/hopebuilders to register to receive your copy!

Look at the first photo. The building is worn, weathered, and clearly too small for the congregation that calls it home....
05/11/2026

Look at the first photo. The building is worn, weathered, and clearly too small for the congregation that calls it home. Some couldn't even fit inside. So they stood outside, hands lifted, worshipping with everything they had.

That image says everything about who this church is. Not a congregation waiting for better conditions to be faithful. A congregation that was fully committed long before the building caught up.

Today, Centro Betel in Nicaragua worships in a new church, one with space for everyone, a name that the whole community can see, and a sign on the door that says "bienvenido a casa." Welcome home.

The building changed. The faithfulness was already there.

ICM partners with local churches in 111 countries to resource what God is already doing, not by replacing local leadership, but by giving it room to grow.

👇 See how your giving builds churches for congregations like this one.

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