NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD (NAMB)
North America’s needs are great. Children go hungry. Neighborhoods become disaster zones after storms. Entire communities have no church presence and no one to tell them about the hope found in Christ. It doesn’t have to be this way; God has a plan to reach North America: the Church. The Church feeds neighbors in need. The Church removes storm debris. The Church establishes new churches in areas with no gospel presence. NAMB is here to help. We help equip churches to be on mission in their own communities and across the continent. Through compassion ministry, church planting, chaplaincy and disaster relief, we help congregations go to the lost and hurting. [7]
INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD
Since 1845, the International Mission Board has celebrated that Southern Baptists take the Great Commission seriously and that together, we are working toward the Great Multitude we see in Revelation 7:9. Here’s how we are thinking about that at the IMB. Between the Great Commission and the Great Multitude is the Great Pursuit. We have been commissioned to pursue the lost, those who continue to shoulder the world’s greatest problem— the only problem that is universal and eternal. We not only have the solution—the gospel—we have been commissioned to share the solution. The biblical model of getting the gospel to those who have yet to hear is through the presence of a missionary. [6]
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES
The six Southern Baptist theological seminaries exist to prepare God-called men and women for vocational service in Baptist churches and in other Christian ministries throughout the world through programs of spiritual development, theological studies, and practical preparation in ministry. [8] • Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention – Ontario, CA • Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – Kansas City, MO • New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary – New Orleans, LA • Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary – Wake Forest, NC • The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – Louisville, KY • The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – Fort Worth, TX
[6] 2024 IMB Global Impact Guide, The Great Pursuit, 1-2. [7] https://www.namb.net/about/media-and-public-relations/ [8] https://www.sbc.net/about/what-we-do/sbc-entities/
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