What is Baptist Men Ministry?

God “delights in taking ordinary people and using them as only God can do.”

Baptist Men have a desire to see men and families reached for Christ. They provide ministry to men within the congregation and the community. They evangelize men to church membership, establish men to spiritual maturity, equip men for ministry within the church and provide mission work in the community and throughout the world.

Disaster relief is probably their best-known ministry. During 2008, Baptist Men provided meals to more than 50,000 people a day in Baytown, Texas, reeling from a hurricane. Baptist Men helped many locations in North Carolina recover from tornado damage.

The two buses Baptist Men operate as mobile dental and medical clinics provided care to almost 5,000 patients across the state during 2009.

Other ministries include providing a camp for boys with a parent in prison, lay renewal/revival, Camp Caraway, agricultural missions and aviation ministry.

North Carolina Baptist Men (NCBM) volunteers respond. When disaster strikes, they pack up and move out. In 2010 Baptist Men have already covered 14 different disasters and performed 800 disaster recovery jobs involving 10,000 volunteer days.

With five large disaster relief feeding units, North Carolina Baptist Men can feed up to 70,000 people in a day.

Some highlights:

Through Aviation Missions, more than 300 medical mercy flights have been provided.

Two 40-foot medical/dental buses have allowed 1,500 dentists, hygienists and nurses to volunteer.

Almost 1,300 students participated in Deep Impact Student Missions.

Since North Carolina Baptist Men have been partnering with Armenia, the number of churches and baptized believers have more than doubled.

About 250 volunteers worked in Honduras and 100 went to work with partnership in Cuba.

In Haiti, 50,000 people have been treated by medical teams since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Through its partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, 500 shelters have been built. More than 500 volunteers have gone already this year.

Before the 2004 tsunami churches in Sri Lanka were few and could expect persecution. Now, because of the work of volunteers, hundreds have come to know Christ.

In Kenya, volunteer teams can construct four houses in a short mission trip.

In one of the most unreached people of the world and the poorest state in India, Baptist Men are working in Bihar, India, to help villages have access to clean water. In the last four years 500 wells have been built. Churches or groups can adopt a village and provide a well, medical clinic, Bibles, hymnals, and church planters working with villages.