Arkansas Baptist State Convention

Helping your church mobilize for missions

The Arkansas Baptist State Convention Partnership Missions office stands ready to help your church develop and carry out a strategy of missions involvement.

We can help you:

• Train, inform, and encourage your missions team
• Identify meaningful missions projects that are suited to your ministry
• Provide logistic information, including: How to arrange travel, visas, interpreters, accommodations, insurance, trip evaluation.
• Provide comprehensive orientations
• Provide a scholarship for senior pastors making their first international mission trip
• Provide PowerPoint presentations and mission fair booths

We can help you carry out your mission strategy anywhere God calls on you to be involved. Our partners listed on the right have asked for the help of Arkansas churches and are eager to work with your church to provide a meaningful missions experience.

First considerations to begin the process:

Arkansas International Missions Partners/Linkages...

(download this list - see far left column)

Brazil (Forianopolis)    Ron and Alana Greenwich (Arkansas based IMB missionaries) say, "Our main work is with the urban poor communities of Greater Florianopolis, the capital of the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. We work directly with Brazilian churches encouraging them to look around their neighborhoods and see the needs, and proceed to help them study ways of meeting those needs as well as preach the gospel. We also work with our state Baptist convention in targeting priority areas both for evangelism and construction of buildings for existing congregations. On an ongoing basis, we can always use medical teams, evangelism teams to do prayer walking, visiting public schools and homes, family seminars, Bible clubs for children, sports evangelism, etc."
See ronalana.wordpress.com/

Bulgaria    We have the opportunity to work with the unreached Muslims in the mountain region and with the Gypsies along the Danube. Request a newsletter.

France    Paris is called the "City of Lights", but less than one percent of the 11 million people there have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Arkansas Baptists are linking with Tony and Jami Lynn, the city strategists in Paris, to reflect the "Light of the World" to the Persians.  Arkansas volunteers have opportunities to minister with French churches and engage in church planting opportunities. Besides the French, there are several people groups found in Paris, including Muslims who have come from all over the world. Arkansas churches are also working with Indians, Turks, West Africans and North Africans.   Email lynnonmission@msn.com 

Hungary   Arkansas-based IMB missionaries Darin and Kesha Harryman and other missionaries invite us to join them in reaching their fields in Hungary.  One IMB missionary wrote, "Our work is a year and half ahead of schedule because your team came." Arkansas Baptists are stirring the soil for the Gospel in Hungary. See our Arkansas-Hungary page for a list of job requests:  www.absc.org/hungary

Russia    Arkansas missionaries Rusty and Lori Hart invite churches to work with them in reaching Russians in the Ekaterinburg/Sverdlovskaya Oblast areas. Help reach unreached cities through leading Family Relationship Conferences, English Language Instruction, Prayer Walking, Bible Study/Discipleship Teams, Music Evangelism/ Ministry, Construction Ministry, or bring your talent or idea.  www.ahart4russia.com/ 

Tanzania    Carl and Kay Garvin are Arkansas natives serving in Moshi, Tanzania. God continues to use their story in Tanzania and around the world for Christ, and Carl and Kay welcome using Arkansas Baptist volunteers in building projects, medical teams, children's ministries, student ministries, and sport clinics. Moshi is located at the base of beautiful Mt Kilimanjaro.
Email: gkcgarvin@yahoo.com

Ukraine    Arkansas- based IMB missionaries Mike and Linda Ray and Linda Gray want us to help in day camps, construction/remodeling, medical work, prayer walking, English teaching work, sports ministry and possibly other things God hasn’t yet revealed. 
East-Central Ukraine team 
Kharkov team