While Kirk Kirkland saw the beauty in the city, he knew there was brokenness there too.

GenSend is NAMB’s missions development program that enables college-age students, age 18 to 25, to serve in a NAMB Send City for six-to-eight weeks and learn how to live their lives on mission.

“We can see so many ethnic groups living together in one town, in one place, in one city. We have to open our eyes, our strategy and our hearts to reach out to the ethnic groups living among us,” says Mojic Baldandorj.

Five years ago, there were only two Hispanic Canadian Baptist churches in the entire province of Ontario in Canada. One of those churches was located on the west side of Toronto. But what about the east side?

The distance between hearing the gospel and responding to the gospel in Seattle is much greater than some may experience in the Bible Belt South. Yet, Roots Community Church averages between 95 and 110 people every Sunday, and they have seen God at work in their neighborhood.