Got Questions: Violence against women is a tragic reality in our world today, as it has always been since the fall of humankind. We live in a sin-corrupted realm, which includes sexual and gender-based aggression. It should come as no surprise that many Bible stories contain accounts of violence against women, just as any record of present-day society might also include. More Here
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I have no room at all for abuse against children, women and men! NONE!!! It is Satanic!!!
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By David Roach, posted August 4, 2026 in International Missions, SBC News
NASHVILLE (BP) – Domestic abuse is epidemic among Peruvian women, but International Mission Board (IMB) missionary Amanda Waldraff is there to help. Last Christmas, an abused woman began attending a ministry co-led by Waldraff that provides Gospel witness, job training and trauma healing for women who have suffered intimate partner abuse. This summer she came to faith in Christ.
“She is still in an abusive relationship,” Waldraff said. “There is still a lot of brokenness, but you can see the transformation on her face of just knowing that she has value. You can see the joy in her life after having found Christ.”
Reaching that woman was ministry only a female could do. As Waldraff serves, her three children (3-year-old twin girls and a 5-month-old boy) are at her side helping her build rapport with Peruvian women. She also leads, working with her husband Matthew as area director for the Americas with Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ worldwide compassion ministry.
Waldraff is among the more than 1,800 women serving as IMB missionaries, 55 percent of the total IMB missionary force. Many of those women, like Waldraff, fill roles uniquely suited for females. This summer IMB President Paul Chitwood noted the contributions of female missionaries in his report at the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando.
“No organization or institution in Southern Baptist life employs more females in vocational ministry than IMB,” he said, adding that “not one of them is in a pastor/elder role or carries the function of pastor/elder.”
IMB women “have left their country, their culture, their church, their American comforts and, for some, their adult kids and grandkids to answer God’s call upon their lives to take Christ to the nations,” Chitwood said. “Southern Baptists, could we express today our unwavering love and support for those missionaries?”
Following sustained applause, Chitwood added, “That standing ovation will echo in 155 countries around the world, where your female IMB missionaries are sharing the Gospel.”
Yet in addition to the strong female missionary force in Peru, Waldraff notices something else: a lack of single men. “The city that l live in specifically has a lot of single female missionaries,” she said.
Her experience reflects broader realities. The issue of gender on the mission field is a two-sided coin. On one side, women serving with the IMB comprise one of the largest female ministry forces in the world, and they are beating back lostness. On the other hand, the lack of males serving overseas may hinder facets of the missionary task. More Here
