The March commissioning service at First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, for the North American Mission Board was not the first, but, to date, still may have been the largest. Sixty-five NAMB missionaries were appointed during a commissioning service held Nov. 14, 2000, in conjunction with the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, which met at First Baptist Church, Columbia, that year. NAMB president Bob Reccord also delivered a challenge to the new missionaries and to convention messengers at that service.
