Pamela MungoPamela Mungo, a South Carolina native, now a North Carolina-based missionary for the North American Mission Board and the Baptist Convention of North Carolina, has been named “Anglo Church Planting Missionary of the Year” for her work in starting new Southern Baptist churches in North Carolina last year.
Richard Harris, vice president for church planting for NAMB, honored Mungo before a crowd of more than 200 at an awards dinner on March 24, during the four-day 2006 Church Planting Missionaries Forum at the Westin Airport Hotel in Atlanta.
“This group of CPMs (church planting missionaries) are our front-line strategists to evangelize and congregationalize North America,” Harris said. “They are the most ethnically diverse group of leaders in the SBC and model what North America looks like when you walk the streets.
“More importantly, they model the true fulfillment of the Great Commission where it says, ‘Make disciples of all nations.’ And the book of Revelations says, ‘Around the throne there were people from every tribe, every tongue and every nation.’ These folks are helping model how the church is to look as the Lord intended,” said Harris.
“It is with great joy and gratitude that NAMB recognizes Pam and 2005’s four other most outstanding church-planting missionaries, who are some of the finest of our spiritual warriors, and who are passionate about penetrating our culture with the gospel,” Harris said. “These folks are some of the greatest heroes we have as Southern Baptists.”
Living in Lake Lure, N.C., Mungo serves as a church-planting strategist with new Anglo and African-American church starts in the western half of North Carolina. She recruits church planters for new starts and works with each new church for at least two years, until it is stable and self-sufficient. Since 1996, Mungo has worked with 150 new churches in North Carolina.
Mungo earned her B.S. degree at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, and an M.S. degree in religious education at Southern Baptist Seminary.