The missions strategy
at First Baptist Church is a multi-faceted approach that includes
reaching out into our community, as well as providing education to
the membership. These mission education programs include:
Girls in Action: The GA mission group is a
discipleship organization for girls in grades 1-6. Through
GA's, young girls learn about, pray for, give to, and do missions
work. They also make new friends and have lots of fun!
Ga's provide: Relevant ready-to-use weekly curriculum, a
Christ-based peer group for girls, Hands-on ministry, experiences,
opportunities for girls to develop leadership skills, learning about
the biblical basis of missions, and godly mentors. The GA's
meet each Wednesday night from 7-8 p.m.
Mission Friends: In Mission Friends, preschoolers
participate in developmentally and age-appropriate learning
activities and experiences that help set the beginning stage for a
missions lifestyle. Preschoolers learn by doing. They
participate in activities that provide repetition, stir curiosity,
create a sense of accomplishment, help develop relationships,
encourage investigation, and use their senses. They learn to
help others, work together, pray, give, and tell others about God's
love and His Son, Jesus. Mission Friends meet each Wednesday
night from 7 to 8 p.m.
Royal Ambassadors: The Royal Ambassadors
organization grew out of a need for Southern Baptist boys to learn
that they are commissioned as Christ's ambassadors to go into the
world and tell the story of Jesus Christ. It is an
organization that grew through enthusiasm for missions and the need
of belonging to a group of other young Christian ambassadors.
To date 2.16 million boys have participated in Royal Ambassadors
since its inception in 1908, and in the past 10 years alone, a
quarter million young boys have learned to live out the RA pledge.
"We are ambassadors for Christ." (2 Cor. 5:20) This verse of
Scripture, adopted as the Royal Ambassadors motto, capsules the
100-year history of Royal Ambassadors. The RA's meet each
Wednesday night from 7 to 8 p.m.
WMU: The WMU (Women's Missionary Union) is the
mission support group. They participate in mission outreach at
the local level by raising funds to feed the hungry and on the
state, national, and international levels through offerings,
education, and prayer.
Brotherhood: The Brotherhood meets every Wednesday
night. Their pimrary focus is prayer. Everyone is
invited and encouraged to participate. Some ministries that
have come from this group include: in-home prayer visits, in-home
prayer walks, many community construction projects, including ramps
and other home repairs.
