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FGT: Tokyo 5:9 Project

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 25, 2009

What is the FGT Project? The Free Greater Tokyo (FGT)  5:9 Project is a call for laborers to help reach the 33 million Japanese in Tokyo with the gospel of Jesus Christ. For the past three years, there has been an amazing outpouring of blessings from God as many Southern Baptist volunteers have responded to this [...]

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FREE! Church Assessment Tool

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 23, 2009

Among the many tools made available as part of the Acts 1:8 Challenge emphasis is the MAP Church instrument designed to help churches develop their missions involvement. MAP Church stands for “Missional Assessment Profiles” for churches. It is a tool that uses surveys filled out by your church members to measure the missions awareness and involvement in the [...]

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Don’t Know Much About Acts 1:8 Challenge

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 23, 2009

Upon my return from the foreign mission field, I had never heard of the Acts 1:8 Challenge (A18C). A few weeks later, after I came on board at the KBC, I discovered that I was the A18C Coordinator for Kentucky! Needless to say, I had a lot to learn to get up to speed. For those of you [...]

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It All Adds Up: God Used Short-term Missions to Call Me to Career Missions

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 16, 2009

In 1989 I was in my fourth year as pastor of Simpsonville Baptist Church (KY) and enjoying very much my ministry there. It was a church where I felt I could stay for my entire ministry. I was serving on the KBC Board at the time and at the May meeting in Cedarmore my ears perked [...]

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REAP — It’s more than a mission trip

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 13, 2009

Here’s a testimony from a Texas church that has committed to a LEVEL FOUR type project as described in a previous blog, “LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT“   First Baptist Church, Universal City, Texas, and pastor David Lindow have committed to a valley in Peru for the next 4-5 years. For years they had gone on mission trips to [...]

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Child Protection Policy Implemented for all IMB Volunteers

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 12, 2009

(from IMB news) Children are a precious resource entrusted to us, and their care and protection is a top priority. In a world where sexual and physical abuse of children is a sad reality, many churches are taking steps to assure that the children related to their ministry are safe and secure from sexual and physical [...]

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Should our Church Go Overseas?

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 9, 2009

YES! Here are a few reasons why: The Evangelism Gap If you do the math, the large gap between the world population count and the total number of Evangelical Christians world-wide is astounding. There are over 6 billion people on planet earth and by the most lenient estimates, Evangelicals number approximately 600 million, leaving 5.5 [...]

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Why I Believe in Volunteers

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 6, 2009

There is an on-going debate about the use of volunteers in missions settings. Those who look unfavorably on this strategy usually point to factors such as the lay volunteer’s lack of language skills or knowledge of the culture. Some say that the money spent to send a team would be better used sent directly to [...]

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