Most North American
Mission Board (NAMB) missions personnel are jointly funded with state Baptist
conventions and receive support from the Annie Armstrong Easter
Offering®. The 2010 goal is $70 million (100 percent of which will
directly support missionaries and their ministries).
NAMB’s primary
responsibility is to assist Southern Baptist churches in reaching the United
States, Canada, and their territories with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The
agency provides assistance to churches, associations, and state conventions in
church planting and evangelism, including soul-winning training, interfaith
witness, and church and community ministries. Three priority emphases of NAMB
are sharing Christ, starting churches and sending people.
NAMB was formed in 1997,
and is the successor organization of the Home Mission Board, the Brotherhood
Commission, and Radio and Television Commission. The national office is located
near Atlanta, in Alpharetta, GA. In 2009, receipts to the Annie Armstrong
Easter Offering totaled more than $56 million. Since its inception, more than
$1 billion has been given through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.
More than 5,000
missionaries, 2,500 chaplains (serving in military, institutions such as
prisons and hospitals, and in corporate settings), and 125,000 mission
volunteers (e.g. World Changers, Disaster Relief workers) are seeking to reach
the estimated 255 million unbelievers in the United States and Canada.
Mission pastors serve
English-speaking and language churches in rural and urban settings.
Church and community
ministries such as Pregnancy Care Centers, literacy missions, Baptist center
work, weekday ministries, and immigration and hunger ministries result in more
than 30,000 professions of faith each year.
- All seven Southern Baptist seminaries including the Canadian Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary have Nehemiah Project professors in place. This
partnership helps to moblize new church planters.Through severn Nehemiah
Project church planting centers on Southern Baptist seminary campuses, 778
students in 2008 were trained and placed as long term planters. More than 1,165
people have served as short-term interns preparing for church planting
roles.
More than 25,000 youth
and adults learned about mission involvement and ministry by participating in
93 World Changers projects last year, leading 1,270 people to make decisions
for Christ.
There were 1,641 high
school and college students who answered God’s call as summer, sojourner, or
semester missionaries in 2008 resulting in 1,226 professions of faith
and 820 rededications.
Trained Southern Baptist
Disaster Relief volunteers from 42 state conventions spent 118,951 volunteer
days and prepared 7,914,391 meals and repaired 12,474 homes/buildings. More
than 88,800 are trained volunteers. In 2008, 3,487 gospel presentations with
448 professions of faith adn 61 other decisions were reported.