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 Housely - 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.
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