Missions
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations
—Matthew 28:19
Mission Trip Opportunities
- 2024: Greater Vision Baptist Church, Cincinnati, OH
- 2023: New York Gospel Ministries, Manhattan, NY
- 2022: Downeast Baptist Church, Machias, ME
- 2021: Grace Baptist Church, Queens, NY
- 2018: Toledo, OH
- 2017: Missions Trip to Utah
- 2016: Gospel Life Church, Ft. Collins, CO
- 2015: Crosspoint Baptist Church, Iowa City, IA
- 2014: Lancaster Independent Baptist Church, Lititz, PA
- 2013: New York Gospel Ministries, Manhattan, NY
Church Planting in the United States
- Cary Sarang – Korean Baptist Church, Cary, North Carolina
https://www.carysarang.org - Cornerstone Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC
Partner Organizations
Arch Ministries
Arch Ministries is a network of Bible-centered pastors, believers, and churches of like faith and practice who work together so that churches grow stronger. Through church-planting roundtables, internships, and partnerships, Arch aims to identify or plant one like-minded church in every county in the United States. Pray for laborers and for healthy new churches.
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Baptist World Mission
Baptist World Mission has served missionaries, their sending churches, and their supporters since 1961. BWM helps local churches send and care for missionaries around the world. Several of our missionaries serve with BWM, and Ben Sinclair now leads the mission as Executive Director.
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Bibles International
Bibles International, the Bible Society of Baptist Mid-Missions, exists to advance Christ’s church through conservative Bible translation, supported by literacy, training, and publishing services. Its teams work with national believers so that people can read God’s Word in their own language.
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Gospel Fellowship Association
Gospel Fellowship Association Missions works with local churches to send and support missionaries in evangelism, church planting, training nationals, and medical ministry around the world.
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New York Gospel Ministries
New York Gospel Ministries works to reach the nations by reaching the diverse communities of New York City through church planting, hosting mission teams, and a food pantry.
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Pacific Rim Missions
Pacific Rim Missions comes alongside national believers and their local churches by training national pastors, providing ministry resources, and supporting gospel projects. Its work reaches the Philippines, Myanmar, India, and Nepal. J. Mark Kittrell serves as President, and Tim & Sarah Valiante serve through this ministry.
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Daniel & Jennifer Arnold
Daniel and Jennifer serve in Bavaria, where they planted the Freie Baptisten-Gemeinde Eckental, a growing congregation near Nürnberg. Daniel pastors the church, and it hosts the Theological Training Center for the region. Their goal is to train German men to pastor and plant churches of their own.
Dave & Claudia Barba
Dave and Claudia have served the Lord for decades and have helped plant churches across the United States. Through Press On! Ministries they come alongside church planters, encourage struggling and pastorless churches, and preach meetings that strengthen local congregations. Their gospel radio ministry now airs on stations around the world.
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Mike & Stacy Barr
Mike and Stacy started Crosspoint Baptist Church, and the Lord has used it to bring people of all ages to Christ and to baptism. Mike, a former youth pastor, preaches the Word and loves reaching the community through soul winning and outreach. The church now supports missionaries around the world. The Barrs have two married children, grandchildren, and a teenage son.
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Tim & Ruth Bixby
Tim and Ruth serve north of Paris, where Tim pastors the Église Biblique Baptiste du Grand Roissy in Sarcelles, a sister church of the work in Saint-Denis. They live in the Val de France area and reach their neighbors with the gospel while strengthening this young church.
Tom & Stephanie Boehm
Tom and Stephanie have served in Italy for more than a decade and now lead a small church in Deruta. They pray to see indigenous Italian churches established and to train the next generation of believers to carry the gospel forward.
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Dr. Dave & Nancy Canedy
Dave and Nancy, who earlier served as BWM missionaries to Nova Scotia, now serve at the Baptist World Mission home office. Dave is Deputation Director, helping new missionaries through deputation, and serves as field administrator for North America and for furlough replacement missionaries. Dave has served as Deputation Director and Field Administrator since 2009, after years in youth ministry, pastoring, and ten years of missionary service in Nova Scotia.
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Luke & Charlotte Crockett
Luke and Charlotte serve with Baptist Mid-Missions in Mauritius, where they planted Moka Baptist Church, which recently celebrated its two-year anniversary. They earlier ministered in French-speaking West Africa (Côte d’Ivoire) through local church ministry and sports outreach. Please pray for the new church, for safety, and for local believers to grow strong in the faith.
Steve & Katie Diachenko
Steve and Katie have served at Trinity Baptist Church in Cairns for more than a decade, where Steve is an elder. Steve loves preaching God’s Word, ministering to youth, and evangelism. Katie helps lead the ladies’ Bible study and serves in children’s ministry. They are helping plant a new church in the Northern Beaches of Cairns.
Jonathan & Rachael Facenda
Jonathan and Rachael serve with Baptist World Mission at Daegu International Baptist Church, where they are seeing people come to Christ and follow Him in baptism. They use creative outreach to build friendships and share the gospel in this large city. They have started a children's English Bible club, and their teen youth group is growing.
Frank & Tori Frausto
Frank and Tori moved to Knysna, South Africa, in September 2023, after Frank spent more than ten years in pastoral ministry in America. Frank co-pastors Cornerstone Fellowship as part of the Knysna Hope missionary team, and Tori serves in children’s ministry and uses her special education training to teach remedial reading in a local school. Together they disciple new believers, counsel families, and lead a weekly Kids Club where more than 60 children hear God’s Word.
Brent & Karolyn Halstead
Brent and Karolyn have served in Kenya for twenty years. Brent leads the Independent Baptist College of Ministry as executive administrator and teaches many of its classes, training young men and women from a fellowship of churches to serve as leaders, pastors, and church planters. On weekends they visit and encourage national church planters, and the college’s students and graduates have started more than a dozen churches. They help national church planters establish Kitui Baptist Church and Ol'Turoto Baptist Church in Kitengela, and provide Bible institute training for 14 village churches in Ukambani.
Dan & Angie Huffstutler
After twelve years in Kenya, where Dan served as pastor, church planter, and founder of a church-based theological school, the Huffstutlers now serve with Sufficiency of Scripture Ministries. At Shepherd’s Training College they teach and serve in academic and logistical roles, equipping church leaders and their spouses to serve Christ’s church in East Africa.
Mark & Tammisue Kittrell
Mark has served in evangelism, church planting, and missions for more than 35 years, including planting a church in Hawaii. As President of PRMI, he preaches, teaches seminary courses, and helps train national pastors through Haven of Grace Seminary in the Philippines, Doulos Theological Seminary in Myanmar, Haven of Hope in Dimapur, India, and a church and pastors’ training group in Siliguri on the India–Nepal border. Please pray for persecuted believers in India and for new laborers in the harvest.
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Steve & Marcia McLean
Steve and Marcia have served in North Wales since 2008. After a church re-plant in Rhuddlan, they now lead Gosen Church, reaching a younger and largely unchurched generation. Their ministry includes outreach in village schools, a mums & tots group, and personal discipleship.
Tim & Kim Melton
Tim, who grew up in Japan as a missionary kid, and Kim have served in Nagoya for twenty years with Baptist World Mission. They minister at Calvary Baptist Church, where the congregation has outgrown its building, and they help with camps and fellowship for missionaries across Japan. Please pray for a larger church building and for a Japanese national pastor.
Sid & Susie Messer
Sid and Susie have planted Iglesia Bautista El Faro in Manta and, more recently, Iglesia Bautista La Victoria in El Carmen. They train Ecuadorian believers to lead and multiply churches. Their four children are grown, and the Lord has blessed them with grandchildren.
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Seth & Cecilia Mohenu
Seth pastors Faith Independent Baptist Church in Kotobabi, Accra, and serves as Africa Regional Director for International Partnership Ministries. He encourages and trains national pastors and church planters across the region. Pray for their health and for new church plants, including a church building in Winneba.
Luiz & Ana Nunes
Luiz and Ana have served the Lord in Brazil and Portugal and now plant churches in the Cape Verde Islands, sharing the gospel and discipling believers in this Portuguese-speaking nation.
Shadrach & Cavine Nyeko
Shadrach grew up in Northern Uganda during years of war, trained at Bob Jones University, and returned home to found Lubangakene Ministries Uganda in 2021. The church he planted in Karuma began meeting under a tree, and men trained there have gone on to plant churches in Kamdini and Lungulu. Shadrach and Cavine serve as national missionaries with International Partnership Ministries, and they are working to open a school in Karuma to train pastors and church planters.
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Stephen & Veronica Poindexter
After serving on the field in Liberia and Ukraine, Stephen and Veronica now serve on the IBMGlobal Member Care Team, caring for and encouraging missionaries and their families around the world.
Ben & Becca Sinclair
After many fruitful years in Cameroon, where they planted churches and founded Faith Baptist Bible College in Bamenda, Ben and Becca now serve all of Baptist World Mission. Ben leads the mission as Executive Director and also teaches as a seminary professor, helping train and send the next generation of missionaries. After twenty-two years of missionary service in Cameroon, Ben became Executive Director of Baptist World Mission in April 2023.
Joey & Jenny Tacon
Joey and Jenny began ministry in Italy in Grosseto and then started the Chiesa Biblica Battista di Pisa, the first Bible-preaching Baptist church in the city’s long history. Joey pastors the congregation, which includes believers from many nations. Pray for the lost in Pisa to come to Christ.
Michael & Marsha Talley
Michael and Marsha have served in Germany for more than two decades. Michael pastors the Freie Baptistengemeinde Königs Wusterhausen near Berlin. They focus on reaching the next generation and training German believers to lead. Their children are grown, and the Lord has blessed them with grandchildren. Besides Sunday services, they hold weekly Bible studies, a monthly ladies' study, a weekly children's Bible club, and teen Bible studies.
Tim & Sarah Valiante
Dr. Tim and Sarah serve in the Philippines, where Tim directs Haven of Grace Seminary, equipping national pastors, church planters, and missionaries for the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Tim teaches Hermeneutics, Greek, and Systematic Theology, and the seminary is now sending out graduates with master’s-level training. They serve in partnership with Pacific Rim Missions.
Theo & Sarah van Reijn
Theo and Sarah are planting a church in Landgraaf through personal and small-group Bible studies. Once the church is established, they plan to train Dutch believers to plant other churches across the region.
Ken & Heather Wheelock
Ken and Heather serve in Ecuador, planting churches and training Ecuadorian believers to start and lead churches of their own. Please pray for the churches they serve and for national leaders to be raised up.
