Baptist Missions
| Type | Mission ministry |
|---|---|
| Focus | Christianity |
| Location |
|
| Origins | Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland |
|
Area served
|
France Latvia Peru Republic of Ireland Russia Spain Ukraine United Kingdom |
| Method |
Evangelism Church planting |
|
Members
|
30,000 |
|
Key people
|
Gordon Darragh |
| Subsidiaries | Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland |
|
Employees
|
50 |
|
Volunteers
|
200 |
| Slogan | Working Together - Changing Lives |
| Website | www.ibaptistmissions.org |
Baptist Missions (BM) is a Baptist mission organisation and a department of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (ABC). It is located in the Baptist Centre and is shared with ABC. The scope of their activities is international in scale covering several countries including France, Latvia, Peru, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Missions work in Ireland can be traced back to 1814 when the Baptist Irish Society was formed. In 1888 the Baptist Irish Society was renamed the Irish Baptist Home Mission.
Missions work in Peru began in 1924 when the Irish Baptist Foreign Mission was formed. The first mission partners where sent to Peru in 1927. Missions work in France began in 1972.
In 1977 both organisations where merged into the present day Baptist Missions.
The strategy used by BM to achieve its aims is by working with Baptist churches in the countries it works in to evangelise and plant churches and to help existing and new churches to grow and develop spiritually and numerically.
Baptist Missions work on Ireland began before 1814..
BM have 15 Mission Partners groups working in a variety of locations in Ireland, including Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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