North American Mission Board
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The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is the domestic missions
agency of the Southern Baptist Convention
. It exists to assist Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission
in the United States, Canada, and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners. Funding for this agency comes from the gifts of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. Annie Armstrong (1850–1938) was an advocate for missions at home and abroad. 100 percent of AAEO contributions goes toward funding the more than 5,000 Southern Baptist missionaries serving in North America. NAMB serves as the endorsing agency for more than 3,000 Southern Baptist chaplains serving in military, hospital, professional, corporate and volunteer settings.
NAMB was founded in 1997 through a restructuring that combined the Brotherhood Commission, the Radio and Television Commission and the Home Mission Board. The agency's first president, Robert E. Reccord, served from June 1997 to May 2006. The agency's second president was Geoff Hammond, who served from May 2007 to August 2009. NAMB's current president is Kevin Ezell, who began serving in September 2010. Prior to coming to NAMB, Ezell served as senior pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
NAMB is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia
.
In addition to its missionary and chaplaincy efforts, NAMB partners with state and local Southern Baptists to start more than 1,000 new churches each year. NAMB also assists Southern Baptists in connecting with volunteer mission opportunities such as disaster relief, refurbishing sub-standard housing, and assisting in church planting and evangelism efforts.
NAMB provides national coordination for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts which include more than 70,000 trained disaster relief volunteers and more than 2,000 disaster relief units. Through cooperative efforts, Disaster relief volunteers, in co-operation with state and local relief agencies, are ready to serve in Disaster relief efforts when the needs arise. They are partnered with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross to help provide feeding stations as well as work crews to help clear disaster areas of debris and make temporary repairs to homes and service agencies. Many times they are first responders. In 2010, Southern Baptists served 32,556 volunteer days in disaster relief settings and prepared 272,0963 meals for those impacted by disasters.
See the web link below for the current response needs that are being met in Haiti and New England from the recent earth Quakes and flooding.
Mission (Christian)
Christian missionary activities often involve sending individuals and groups , to foreign countries and to places in their own homeland. This has frequently involved not only evangelization , but also humanitarian work, especially among the poor and disadvantaged...
agency of the Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members...
. It exists to assist Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission
Great Commission
The Great Commission, in Christian tradition, is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples, that they spread his teachings to all the nations of the world. It has become a tenet in Christian theology emphasizing missionary work, evangelism, and baptism...
in the United States, Canada, and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners. Funding for this agency comes from the gifts of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. Annie Armstrong (1850–1938) was an advocate for missions at home and abroad. 100 percent of AAEO contributions goes toward funding the more than 5,000 Southern Baptist missionaries serving in North America. NAMB serves as the endorsing agency for more than 3,000 Southern Baptist chaplains serving in military, hospital, professional, corporate and volunteer settings.
NAMB was founded in 1997 through a restructuring that combined the Brotherhood Commission, the Radio and Television Commission and the Home Mission Board. The agency's first president, Robert E. Reccord, served from June 1997 to May 2006. The agency's second president was Geoff Hammond, who served from May 2007 to August 2009. NAMB's current president is Kevin Ezell, who began serving in September 2010. Prior to coming to NAMB, Ezell served as senior pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
NAMB is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia
Alpharetta, Georgia
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 34,854 people, 13,911 households, and 8,916 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,631.6 people per square mile . There were 14,670 housing units at an average density of 686.7 per square mile...
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In addition to its missionary and chaplaincy efforts, NAMB partners with state and local Southern Baptists to start more than 1,000 new churches each year. NAMB also assists Southern Baptists in connecting with volunteer mission opportunities such as disaster relief, refurbishing sub-standard housing, and assisting in church planting and evangelism efforts.
NAMB provides national coordination for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts which include more than 70,000 trained disaster relief volunteers and more than 2,000 disaster relief units. Through cooperative efforts, Disaster relief volunteers, in co-operation with state and local relief agencies, are ready to serve in Disaster relief efforts when the needs arise. They are partnered with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross to help provide feeding stations as well as work crews to help clear disaster areas of debris and make temporary repairs to homes and service agencies. Many times they are first responders. In 2010, Southern Baptists served 32,556 volunteer days in disaster relief settings and prepared 272,0963 meals for those impacted by disasters.
See the web link below for the current response needs that are being met in Haiti and New England from the recent earth Quakes and flooding.
See also
- Southern Baptist ConventionSouthern Baptist ConventionThe Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members...
- List of Southern Baptist Convention affiliated people
- American Christian Television SystemAmerican Christian Television SystemThe American Christian Television System was a television network developed in the 1980s by the Southern Baptist Convention . Plans for the network involved a combination of low and full-power stations, most of which were to be built, and carriage on local cable TV networks.Religious denominations...
External links
- North American Mission Board
- Annie Armstrong Easter Offering
- http://www.namb.net/site/c.9qKILUOzEpH/b.224451/k.A400/Disaster_Relief.htm