Southern Baptists - there are over 16 million believers who come together to work as one, as a team, to ensure that the gospel will be shared around the world. Simply put, we decided the best way to fulfill the command of Christ is to combine our efforts, energies, and resources. Our missionaries do not have to go out and seek monies for their mission work. We pay them a regular salary.
Total Missionaries home and abroad - over 7,000 plus
We come together to assist the following ministries:
Annie Armstrong Mission Offering - Assists our home missionaries
Haiti Mission Outreach - On hands outreach - many travel to Haiti to assist our fellow believers
Lottie Moon Mission Offering - Assists our foreign missionaries.
Fairbanks Food Closet - This is a home community effort and our church contributes 1% of our offering
Beulah Peoples Offering - Assists church starts
Our church supports the SBC Cooperative Program! This program assists all SBC ministries such as seminaries, missions, church starts, etc.
Our Home Missions
Sending Missionaries and Chaplains
A missionary is a person who, in response to God’s call and gifting, leaves his or her comfort zone and crosses cultural, geographic or other barriers to proclaim the gospel and live out a Christian witness in obedience to the Great Commission. — Definition adopted by the International and North American Mission Boards in 2000.
Each year, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) approves and appoints hundreds of new missionaries in partnership with the 42 Baptist state conventions and the Canadian National Baptist Convention. NAMB and these partnering conventions work together in recruiting, selecting, jointly funding, training, supporting, and appointing missionaries.
NAMB also endorses chaplains who serve in the military, healthcare, correctional and counseling facilities, children's homes, academies, corporate, and public safety settings. Learn more about chaplaincy.
There are three broad categories of missionaries serving through NAMB.
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Career Missionaries usually receive salary compensation and benefits from NAMB and convention partners. They often serve in roles such as church starting, community ministry, evangelism or mission strategy. (Learn more about Career)
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Limited Term Missionaries usually assume a vocational missionary role for a specified period of time in the same type of ministry as a Career Missionary. They receive salary and benefit support from NAMB and convention partners. (Learn more about US/C2, Nehemiah Church Planters and Church Planter Pastors)
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Mission Service Corps (MSC) MSC Missionaries serve in many of the same mission roles as Career and Limited Term Missionaries. They do not receive salary and benefits from NAMB but do receive support through training and placement services. (Learn more about Mission Service Corps)
Missionaries commissioned through the above pathways of service are included in NAMB’s official missionary count, which totaled 5,304 at the end of 2009..
In addition to these three categories of missionaries, there are opportunities for students to serve as missionaries. Opportunities available to high school and college students include:
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Sojourner Missionaries are high school juniors and seniors who serve four to ten weeks during the summer. (Learn more about Sojourners)
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Summer and Semester Missionaries are college and seminary students who serve in a local church or association for four to ten weeks during the summer, fall, or spring semester. (Learn more about Summer and Semester Missionaries)
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Innovator Missionaries are college students serving with a team of other students, usually in a resort area, working at a secular job and given a missions assignment. (Learn more about Innovators)
Discover the pathway of service that is right for you at www.answerthecall.net as you answer His call . . . tell His story . . . and change your world.
Our Foreign Missions
Vision
Our vision is a multitude from every language, people, tribe and nation knowing and worshipping our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our mission is to make disciples of all peoples in fulfillment of the Great Commission.
We commit to obedience to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to God’s inerrant Word. We believe Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for salvation and all people without personal faith in Him are lost and will spend eternity in hell. We seek to provide all people an opportunity to hear, understand and respond to the Gospel in their own cultural context. We evangelize through proclamation, discipling, equipping and ministry that results in indigenous reproducing Baptist churches.
We serve churches to facilitate their involvement in the Great Commission and the sending of missionaries to bring all peoples to faith in Jesus Christ. We partner with Baptists and other Christians around the world in accordance with IMB guidelines. We understand and fulfill God’s mission through God’s Word, prayer and the
leadership of the Holy Spirit.
Field personnel under appointment (11/10/09) 5,512
Career/associate/apprentices 4,340
2-year ISC/Journeymen/Masters 1,172
Field personnel appointed 2008 979
Career/associate/apprentices 388
2-year ISC/Journeymen/Masters 591
Student volunteers 2008 5,226
Overseas baptisms 2008* 565,967
Overseas churches 2008* 181,967
Overseas church membership 2008* 10.3 million
New churches 2008* 26,970
People groups engaged (as of 2/25/09)** 1,206
People groups of the Last Frontier** 5,905
Population of the Last Frontier peoples** 1.7 billion
World population 2008** 6.9 billion
LMCO receipts for Christmas 2008 $141.3 million
LMCO goal for Christmas 2008 $170 million
LMCO goal for Christmas 2009 $175 million
IMB budget for 2009 $319.8 million
World Hunger/General Relief 2008 receipts $5.4 million
*data from 2008 Annual Statistical Report, reflecting status end of 2007
**data from Global Status of Evangelical Christianity February 2009
Who’s Missing? Whose Mission? Annual theme 2009
Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelization May 23, 2010
Week of Prayer for International Missions Nov. 29-Dec. 6
International Mission Study North Africa
Contact Info for Farmington Bapitst Church:
PO Box 160, 194 Whittier Road
West Farmington, ME 04992
207-779-0731 - 207-778-9945
e-mail fabc@myfairpoint.net
