Under the authority of Christ, the local church is God’s agency to make his gospel known near and far through the multiplication of more local churches. Therefore, every local church should be selective, strategic, and careful as it engages in the work of God’s mission.
Our missions involvement consists of having fewer but engaged partnerships with healthy like-minded ministries which causes financial support to be greater.
We stay in regular contact and engage with our partners in three specific ways:
Radius International is committed to assisting the evangelical church and missions community by providing pre-field missions training that will equip cross-cultural workers to establish healthy, indigenous, reproducing churches among unreached language groups. Radius does this by training singles, couples, and families who are committed to long-term, pioneer church planting among unreached language groups. Radius focuses on gospel clarity, long-term commitments, integrated training, and the centrality of the local church. They are training individuals to go to the hardest unreached places left on earth to reach people with the gospel through local church planting.
Frontiers is a mission agency that focuses on reaching the peoples and places with the least access to the Gospel. They work to recruit, train and send teams to live and serve where Jesus Christ is not known, bringing His message to those who have not yet heard the Gospel. We currently support a specific missionary serving in the Sub-Saharan African region.
The IMB is the largest evangelical missions sending agency in the world. Their reach and scope are broad, sustaining missions work in church planting, engaging unreached people groups, pastoral training, and providing resources for the global church. They are not focused on a specific region but aim to engage all nations for the purpose of making disciples.
Gorgie Community Mission Church is a revitalized church located in a scheme of Edinburgh, Scotland. While the global church has a presence in Scotland, the schemes of Scotland, which are inner-city housing districts remain some of the hardest places to reach with the gospel. While there are still some working class, with some holding down two or more jobs as they struggle to pay the bills, many of the people living in the schemes are living off benefits, in social housing, refusing to work, and have been doing so for generations. Drug and alcohol addiction is rampant, and many in the schemes either use or deal, or both. Both illegal and legal drugs make their rounds, and there are many drug deaths as a result. Over time, with more and more immigration, many internationals have moved in as well, which has added a very different, but very large, demographic of different nationalities and cultures. Often they are seen as outsiders and are regarded with suspicion. While it is easy to fixate on the economic and cultural state of the schemes, we believe that the greatest need of each soul in the scheme is spiritual. While charities meet critical social needs, they can’t meet the spiritual need that only the local church can address. We believe that gospel-preaching local churches are the best way to reach the dying souls in the schemes for Christ.
Under the lordship of Jesus Christ, the mission of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is to be totally committed to the Bible as the Word of God, to the Great Commission as our mandate, and to be a servant of the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention by training, educating, and preparing ministers of the gospel for more faithful service. Southern Seminary was the first Southern Baptist seminary and originally met in Greenville, SC. It stands today in a central location across the states (Louisville) and maintains the highest student enrollment status on a regular basis year to year.
ACME is an association of churches for missions and evangelism. It exists to unite and mobilize like-minded churches to fund pastors, church planters, missionaries, and other projects around the world. ACME pools money from its member churches to provide grants. These grants will fund like-minded works such as church plants and revitalizations, international missionaries and other like-minded ministries. ACME promotes biblical principles that link churches across geographic, ethnic, and denominational lines. ACME churches adhere to the following Member Church Affirmations: Expositional Preaching, Historic Baptistic Ecclesiology, Reformed Soteriology, Meaningful Membership and Discipline, Elder-Led Congregationalism, One Unified Assembly, Biblically Oriented Public Worship and Church-Centered Missions and Evangelism.
Flourish Adoption Agency is a local faith-based adoption agency where you will find support and encouragement. They are dedicated to supporting birth mothers, expectant mothers, and adoptive families through every step of their adoption journey. Flourish exists to build families as God designed, to pursue adoption with integrity, and to provide support that honors everyone.
Send Relief exists to respond to life-altering moments with the life-giving gospel of Jesus. Whether it’s responding to natural disasters, caring for refugees, fighting human trafficking, supporting adoption and foster care efforts or providing clean water and medical attention to struggling communities, Send Relief is committed to connecting people in need with people who care.
Piedmont Women’s Center is a trusted provider of reproductive health care serving the upstate of South Carolina and surrounding areas. They serve on the frontline in the fight against abortion. They offer services including: pregnancy consultations, free pregnancy services, adoption referrals, parenting equipping, women’s health services, child loss support, and more.
The SBC Cooperative Program is the collaborative effort from Southern Baptists to combine resources into one fund which is then distributed to various ministry endeavors such as church planting, missions, compassion ministry, pastoral training, and more. The CP serves as a systemized way to fulfill the great commission and the felt needs around it. As with all our partners, we evaluate the like-mindedness and health of our partners regularly. This especially applies to the SBC Cooperative Program. We have chosen to be, and will continue to be, especially selective in which entities within the convention we choose to support more than others.
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