The North American Mission Board will commission 125 new missionaries – representing 29 states, one Canadian province and Puerto Rico – at First Baptist Church, Taylors, during 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services on Sun., Feb. 24.
Taylors First Baptist ChurchSenior pastor of Taylors First Baptist is Frank Page, now in his second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
For ministry in South Carolina alone, NAMB will commission six new missionaries to be based in Charleston, Columbia and Fort Jackson.
“On behalf of Southern Baptists, the North American Mission Board commissions missionaries and chaplains three times a year,” said Geoff Hammond, president of NAMB, located in Alpharetta, Ga. “It’s one of our greatest privileges.
“As part of our partnership with state and Canadian State Baptist conventions, local associations and churches, a commissioning service is a special time to celebrate missionaries and chaplains who have answered God’s call on their lives and take up the task of sharing his plan of salvation with those in need throughout the United States, Canada and their territories.”
NAMB’s three-pronged focus is sharing Christ, starting new churches and sending missionaries, according to Hammond, who was unanimously elected president of the mission board almost a year ago.
Hammond, who will deliver the commissioning sermon, was born in Nigeria to missionary parents and raised in Zimbabwe. After earning a business degree, he graduated from Spurgeon’s Seminary in London. He holds a doctor of ministry degree in evangelism and ministry from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex. He and his wife Debbie, herself formerly an International Mission Board missionary, are the parents of two sons.
The North American Mission Board is the Southern Baptist Convention missions agency which, in cooperation with its Acts 1:8 partners, assists 42,000 SBC churches in reaching the United States, Canada and their territories with the gospel of Jesus Christ. NAMB oversees the work of more than 5,000 missionaries who depend on prayers and faithful support through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.