NAMB Facts

• 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 2009 goal is $65 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 2006, 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 5,500 missionaries, 2,500 chaplains (serving in military, institutions such as prisons and hospitals, and in corporate settings), and hundreds of thousands of mission volunteers (e.g. World Changers, Disaster Relief workers) are seeking to reach the estimated 251 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.
• The Strategic Focus City (SFC) emphases for 2008 are Baltimore and San Diego. Since it began in 1998, NAMB’s SFC emphasis has yielded more than 400 church plants and more than 55,000 volunteers in nine cities.
• All seven Southern Baptist seminaries including the Canadian Southern Baptist Theological Seminary have Nehemiah Project professors in place. Because of this partnership to mobilize new church planters, nearly 900 church planter interns have been appointed to serve in summer, semester, and full-time capacities.
• 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 1,715 high school and college students who answered God’s call as summer, sojourner, or semester missionaries last year resulting in 1,016 professions of faith and 682 rededications.
• More than 50,000 people are trained in Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. In partnership with Baptist state conventions, more than 17 million meals were served in 2005 to victims of disasters.