Missions Ministries
God has called the church to be salt and light in a dark and dying world (Matt 5:14-16). To accomplish this command we seek to engage in the work of missions by directly evangelizing and serving our community, nation, and the world (Matt 28:19-20), and by supporting other organizations and missionaries that accomplish work which is beyond our ability to personally undertake (Col 4:2-3, 2 Cor 9:10-11).
Community Outreach
We are committed to reaching our community for Christ and desire to be
an integral part of God's work in the Bount County area. To accomplish
this we seek to have multiple outreach events each year including
marriage conferences, Fall Festival outreach, Biblical counseling
seminars, and other specially focused ministries.
Missions trips
Missions trips are an excellent way to expose our members to the work of
God around the world, and to support and encourage the missionaries
sponsored by our church. We seek to rotate our trips by sending teams to
our local area, to needy areas within the USA, and to overseas
destinations. This year we will take a team to China to support the work
of a Christian run private school.
Missions Support
Missionary support
We current support the following missionaries:
- Ray Rhodes - Nourished in the Word Ministries
Nourished in the Word is the teaching and writing ministry of Ray
Rhodes, Jr. Ray's purpose is to promote the glory of God through
teaching, writing, and God-centered resources
www.nourishedintheword.org
- Bill and Kelley Housley - New Tribe Missions
NTM coordinates missionaries sent by local churches to take the
Gospel to tribal people. Missionaries then plant churches. They disciple
believers, translate the Scriptures, and train teachers and leaders, who
in turn reach out to their own people and to neighboring tribes. Bill
and Kelley are working with the Inapang people group, Itutang, Papua New
Guinea www.ntm.org
- Dan and Becky DeGroat - Global Outreach Group
Global Outreach Group coordinates with the Christian Camping
International (CCI) Forum and other organizations to see Christian camps
and conferences successfully engaged in cross-cultural ministry by
equipping indigenous leaders to establish, grow, and maintain their own
camping ministries. Dan and Becky work extensively in Russia and the
former Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Jeff and Jennifer Thomas - ABWE
The Association of Baptists for World Evangelism is an independent
mission agency that exists to serve local churches in the task of
sending missionaries around the world. ABWE, with ministries in over 80
countries, services over 5,000 churches and 1,400 missionaries. Jeff and
Jennifer are serving as church planters in Portugal.
- Tom Webb - Trinity Counseling Center
Trinity Counseling Center offers Biblical Counseling in association
with Trinity Medical Associates in West Knoxville. Biblical counseling
helps us to see our problems from God's perspective. We believe that God
in his Word has provided practical solutions to our deepest human
problems.
Community Outreach Support
There is much work in the community that we, individually, do not have
the resources to undertake. Thus we support the following organizations:
- Pregnancy Resource Center
Pregnancy Resource Center of Blount County is a pro-life
organization ministering to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs
of those facing difficult decision regarding pregnancy and by
communicating God's plan for sexual purity by teaching life-affirming
choices for a healthy and fulfilled life.
- Chilhowee Baptist Association
The Chilhowee Batist Association is the local association of
Southern Baptist Convention Churches. The association provides
coordination for the following community ministries
- The Baptist Center - The Baptist Center provides
resources for breaking the cycle of poverty through food and
clothing distribution.
- Camp Tipton - The facilities at Camp Tipton include
bunk houses, kitchen, and recreational areas for church group
functions and retreats.
- Chilhowee Area Ministries (CHARM) - CHARM exists to
minister to peoples who live, work, and play in the resort areas
of Blount County.
www.chilhoweeba.org
- Knox Area Rescue Mission
Knox Area Rescue Ministries provides outreach services, residential
recovery, evangelism, discipleship and job skills training for poor and
homeless persons in the Knoxville area.
www.karm.org
- New Life Jail Ministries
The New Life Jail Ministry reaches out to inmates at the Blount
County Detention Facility. The purpose is to share the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ and to make discipleship classes available. Our desire
is to equip them through classes that allow them to function as good
citizens in our community.
www.NewLifeBlountCounty.org
Christian Publications Support
Solid evangelical material is desperately needed in carrying out our
commission to make disciples of all nations. This material is
increasingly hard to come by and thus we support the following
publishing organizations:
- Mt. Zion Bible Church/Chapel Library
Chapel Library is the printing ministry of Mt. Zion Bible Church,
Pensacola, FL. They provide books, booklets, tracts and a quarterly
magazine (The Free Grace Broadcaster). All materials are provided free
of charge, postage paid. Chapel Library material feature the writings of
A.W. Pink, L.R. Shelton Jr., Horatious Bonar, C.H. Spurgeon, and many
contemporary conservative evangelical writers.
www.mountzion.org
- Founders Ministries
Founders Ministries is a ministry of teaching and encouragement that
seeks to promote both doctrine and devotion expressed in the Doctrines
of Grace and their experiential application to the local church,
particularly in the areas of worship and witness. Founders Ministries
takes as its theological framework the first recognized confession of
faith that Southern Baptists produced, The Abstract of Principles. We
desire to encourage the return to and promulgation of the Biblical
gospel that our Southern Baptist forefathers held dear.
www.founders.org