Baptist International Missions, Inc.

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Baptist International Missions, Incorporated (BIMI) is a missions organization that provides aid to Independent Baptist missionaries.

BIMI was founded in 1917 by Anton and Viola Andersen. [1]

In the late 1950s, the work focused on what was then known as the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo); [2] in the 2020s, the organization works on church planting around the world.

BIMI is based in Tennessee, US; [3] in 2023, the president was David Snyder.

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