ABOUT WORD FOR THE WORLD

ORGANIZATION

In obedience to the command of the Lord Jesus Christ to, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel" (Mark 16:15); and seeing the need for a mission board to aid those Bible-Believing, serious-minded men called of God to reach their respective fields of service; and with the blessing of his pastor, Rev. Kelton Williams and the Calvary Baptist Church, Red Bank, Tennessee; Dr. Homer Smith began Word for the World Baptist Ministries in January 1980. Word for the World Baptist Ministries is composed of a Bible Institute and a Mission Board.

Word for the World Baptist Missions is an international faith missionary ministry
whose goals are to:

• Aid, encourage, and promote Local Church missions.
• Be an aid and help to churches and missionaries that they may
  effectively serve the Lord.
• Help plant indigenous churches around the world.

Dr. Homer Smith has been in the ministry over 50 years planting churches, pastoring, and serving as a missionary evangelist. He holds Faith Promise Missions Conferences to help churches get involved in giving to missions and also to help raise support for missionaries and mission projects around the world. Dr. Smith has helped literally hundreds of churches get involved in Faith Promise Missions Giving and raised millions of dollars for missionaries and mission projects in his 50 + years.

PURPOSE

According to the biblical principle of missions set forth in the book of Acts, Chapter 13, it is the function and duty of the Local Church to authorize and send out its own missionaries. Word for the World Baptist Missions is dedicated to the encouragement and promotion of that principle around the world. Every missionary candidate, to be eligible for service under our Mission Board, must be a member of and commissioned by a local Bible-Believing, Mission-Minded, New Testament Baptist Church. Thus, there is established and maintained a vital relationship between the missionary on the field and his home church. Every authorizing and supporting church, and every missionary, becomes an integral part of the Word for the World Baptist Missions family, and establishes a modern operation of the Scriptural method of missionary enterprise.

It is the purpose of Word for the World Baptist Missions to serve as a means through which Bible–Believing Baptist Churches may:

• Cooperate in sound Baptist missionary activities.
• Direct their missionary funds.
• Refer those separated, serious-minded, soul-winning, individuals of their congregations who are called into missionary service, both at home and abroad, for help in getting to their chosen field of service.

POLICY

Word for the World Baptist Missions is an arm of, and under the authority of a local church. The desire of the Mission Board is to be an aid to its home church and other local churches to directly support separated, soul-winning, Bible-Believing, Independent Baptist missionaries on their chosen fields around the world, thus fulfilling the command from God to "Go ye into all the world".

The Mission Board seeks to serve those churches and missionaries who God has directed to us to the best of our ability within the guidelines of our policies and practices. While the missionary must abide by the rules and requirements of the Mission Board, it is the desire that all be done in a spirit and an attitude of love. It is a practice of Word for the World Baptist Missions to be "Narrow in doctrine, but liberal in love".

Any person considered for missionary service with Word for the World Baptist Missions must be a member in good standing of an Independent, Bible-Believing, New Testament Baptist Church.

PRECEPTS

• We believe that the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God, and that they are the supreme and final authority for faith and practice. We believe the King James Version (1611) of the Bible to be the Word of God without error.
• We believe in the triune God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
• We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, substitutional death, and bodily resurrection.
• We believe in Salvation by "Grace" plus nothing and minus nothing. The conditions to salvation are repentance and faith.
• We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe in the personal, premillennial return of Jesus Christ.
• We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
• We believe that all believers are called into a life of separation from all worldly and sinful places, practices, and alliances and unto a life of dedication to Jesus Christ.
• We are Baptist in our doctrine, but we do not hold to Hypercalvinistic views of Scripture, neither do we hold to the Armenian view of Biblical Interpretation.

PRACTICES

(The Principles of Operation)

Word for the World Baptist Missions and the missionaries who are affiliated with it are to live by the media of faith. This faith is to be in God who supplies all our needs according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19), and comes by a daily, personal meditation in the Word of God, and by much fervent prayer (Psalms 1:2-3; John 15:7; James 5:16). Just how each missionary puts his faith into practice is to be a personal thing under the direction of the Holy Spirit, which is never contrary to the Holy Scriptures. We do not approve of the financial schemes, antics, wholesale solicitations, and gimmicks, used by many today which are nothing but fleshly methods and are not based upon Bible principles. Our weapons are not to be carnal (worldly-fleshly) but mighty through God . . . which in turn . . . will bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:4-5). We seek to utilize the spiritual weapons of Prayer-Matthew 9:37-38; Waiting-Isaiah 40:31; Fasting-Acts 13:2-3; and the Spirit’s power-I Corinthians 2:4-5.

Our Mission Board allows freedom to the missionary as long as he or she does not do anything contrary to Holy Scripture. The Mission Board assumes no financial responsibility for the projects on the field that the missionary may feel led to propagate. Our missionaries must accept and observe the Mission Board’s Precepts (Statement of Faith), Practices (Principles of Operation), and Policies. The Mission Board serves as a contact between local churches and their missionaries.

We believe that the Gospel Seed (The Word) properly planted and watered will produce an indigenous church anywhere. An indigenous church is a local assembly of baptized believers, a theocracy operating on democratic principles, self-supporting, self-propagating in obedience to the Holy Scriptures, and is led and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

We believe that each of our missionaries should seek to be made all things to all men that by all means they might win some (I Corinthians 9:22), have their spirits stirred within them as they see regions beyond wholly given to idolatry (Acts 17:16), and that they be given to continual prayer and the ministry of the Word (Acts 6:4).

We believe in the great commission that tells us, to go to every creature, to win the lost to Christ, to scripturally baptize them, to help them grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus by a thorough teaching of God’s Holy Word, and to teach them to evangelize others (Matthew 28:19-20).

PROGRAM

Word for the World Baptist Missions’ goal is to serve churches and missionaries.

We serve Churches by:

• Providing missionaries for conferences for consideration for support by the church.
• Providing assistance in setting up a Faith Promise Missions Conference for Local Churches by:
• Making available speakers to come and present Faith Promise Missions Giving.
• Making available Faith Promise Missions Giving cards.
• Making available self-addressed envelopes to send in the missionary support.
• Providing semi-annual Giving Statements to show the mission giving activity for the past six months with a total for year-to-date giving.
• Providing miscellaneous information about the missionaries the church supports, such as:
  addresses, phone numbers, field information, family names, birthdates, etc.

We serve missionaries by:

• Providing applicants with Missionary Candidate School each year to help them understand how to do deputation, lay out prayer cards, letterheads, displays, etc.
• Equipping them for the missionary ministry they are called to.
• Providing a "home base" or Home Office where they can get much needed help and encouragement while on deputation or on the mission field.
• Providing record-keeping systems that can give them a "Support List" each month showing how much support came in and who it came from.
• Providing bill-paying services for the missionaries from their support.
• Provide help with passport and visa applications.
• Provide help with airline tickets and shipping & handling personal items to the field.
• Provide help with miscellaneous correspondence and phone calls that come into the Home Office.
• To do all we can here, so they can do all they can there!

PARTICIPATION

(You can have a part!)

Word for the World Baptist Missions is a ministry of Faith. We do not charge churches or missionaries one penny for services we provide. We are supported by the free will gifts and offerings of churches and individuals that God has burdened to help keep this ministry going for the Glory of God. We need your help! We need your prayers for us as we endeavor to reach the goals that God has set before us. We need your financial support to meet the needs of this growing ministry. We need your help to get the word out about Word for the World Baptist Missions. We want to be everything God wants us to be for His honor and His glory. Please consider helping this great work with your gifts and your prayers.

If we can be of service to you or your church, please feel free to call on us at Word for the World Baptist Ministries. We are here to help you if we can. The address is: Word for the World, P. O. Box 849, Rossville, Georgia 30741-0849. The telephone number is: (706) 866-8826.

Dr. Homer Smith – Executive Director / Rudy Stembridge – Administrative Director

A Ministry of:

Bible Believer's Baptist Church
660 Constitution Avenue, Stowe, PA 19464-3602
Phone: (610) 323-1410
Dr. Mike Collingwood - Pastor