Missions

Our Church family is strongly committed to Global Evangelism and World Missions. We are honored to be the sending church for three missionary families.

We are strong supporters of the associated mission work of the American Baptist Association.

Chase and Kelli Reynolds

Bible translators and missions consultants

Chase and Kelli Reynolds are Bible translators and missions consultants. They and their three boys, Uriah, Nathan, and Corin, served in Papua, Indonesia 12 years helping the Yetfa people group have God’s Word in their own language. They are currently involved in language projects helping 8 other language groups with Bible translation. Chase and Kelli are also the head of World Missions Ministry where they encourage, train, and recruit missionaries to carry the gospel to the uttermost parts of the world with a particular focus on unreached people groups. Their ministry also encourages and equips churches to better fulfill the Great Commission in practical ways. In 2008, Sublett Road Baptist Church became their sending church, and the Lord has blessed that partnership tremendously. SRBC has been a part of the 11 language projects, plus the current 8, with which Chase and Kelli have worked by supporting and encouraging them and holding the rope back home.

Matthew and Sarah Thompson

Bible translator

I grew up in a Christian home. God saved me when I was six, and I have known I was called to the ministry since I was young. I went to Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary right out of high school and earned a Masters of Theological studies.I interned with Chase Reynolds, a missionary and Bible Translator in Papua, Indonesia, for two months during the summer of 2018. Over time, God assured me of His call for me to be involved in Bible Translation work. Sublett Road Baptist Church voted to be my sending church in 2019, and I began my linguistics and Bible Translation training at Dallas International University (where Chase went) in June 2020.I will finish training and be ready to go on the field in the summer of 2022. God’s word is the foundation for everything God wants to do among a people group, and making it available in a language they understand is critical to the Great Commission. It is exciting to see God narrowing my vision for which people group I will serve. Please, pray for me in this effort.

Holly and Lyosha Naimushin

Missionary Helper

Holly felt the call of missions on her heart even as a young teenager. Saved at the age of ten, she was baptized and became a member of SRBC two years later. She participated in her first mission trip at the age of sixteen, and while on a mission trip when she was seventeen, Holly felt God asking her if she would serve Him with her life. She didn’t know what that would entail in the future, but she said yes to Him anyway. In the fall of 2013, Holly moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, as a missionary that helps other missionaries. From the time of her arrival in St. Petersburg, she started working with two other missionary families in doing ministry there. She worked closely with both families in a variety of ways before each of those families returned to the States. Holly has since remained in St. Petersburg, continuing to look for opportunities to be used by God. A large part of the reason Holly has been able to stay in Russia is that she married a Russian! In 2015, Holly met Lyosha Naimushin in St. Petersburg. They started dating in 2016 and got married in 2018. Lyosha teaches English at the university level and, while not a missionary himself, loves to give away Bibles to people and has helped on multiple occasions with outreach ministries in St. Petersburg.

Other Missionaries we support

   Chase Reynolds, Wycliffe Translator (Indonesia)

   Holly Couch, St.Petersburg, Russia
   B.R. Siingh North India
   David P. Smith – LifeLine Church Plant, Mansfield Tx
   CityReach International – Youth Mission Trips
   David Hardin – Outreach Bible Project
   Jay Gibson Allen, TX
   Terry Edwards Fort Worth, TX
   Kim Williams Houston, TX
   Shin Kamoda Tokyo, Japan
   ABA – Interstate & Foreign Missions Fund Texarkana, TX
   David and Deb Bostick Ukraine

   Ernie Hopper Kenya, Africa
   Texas State Missions (Salary Fd.) Garland, TX
   Texas Missions Development Jacksonville, TX
   Pine Springs Encampment Laneville, TX
   Texas Baptist Institute Henderson, TX
   Jim Black, Romania
   John Steich, Seattle, WA
   Interstate Mission Development Searcy, AR
   Rusty Teer, Thailand
   Russell Knight , Tumwater, Washington
   Aaron Johnson Washington, PA
   Texarkana Orphanage Texarkana, AR
   Texas Mission Builders Laneville, TX

   H.O.M.E. Foreign
   Emmanuel House Women’s Shelter Romania
   Bill Johnson Foreign
   Arlington Pregnancy Center Arlington, TX
   Arlington Life Shelter Arlington, TX
   Dave Manary, Romania
   Timothy Sims, Thailand
   Rodney Burdette, Thailand
   Eric Schrock Romania
   David Helmick, Kosova
   John Michael Strader, Kenya, Africa
   Jon Lowe, Brownsburg, Indiana
   Jodie Vesely, Russia

We believe in and practice Faith Promise Mission Giving

What is Faith Promise Giving?

Is Faith Promise missions giving right for your church?

It may be if your church has a burden for world evangelization and would like to double or perhaps triple her missions giving. It is even probable that your regular offerings will go up at the same time. This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky scheme, but a proven Biblical method of financing world evangelization that woks equally well in churches of all sizes and social backgrounds.

Interested? Here is more information.

What Faith Promise Giving is not.

Faith Promise is not a pledge. No cards are signed and no agreement is made with the church or pastor.

Faith Promise is not tithing. Tithing is giving ten percent of a person’ income to the Lord. Faith Promise goes beyond tithing and trusts the Lord to supply a special offering for missions.

Faith Promise is not a love offering. Love offerings are received at special times for specific and particular needs. Usually these are given as one-time offerings as God burdens the hearts of His people.

Faith Promise is not prosperity theology. God does not guarantee that a person will become wealthy because he gives to missions what God has provided.

Faith Promise is not unreasonable giving. Missions is the work of God and it is reasonable to expect Him to finance His work through His people.

Faith Promise is not the only method of missions giving. Many fine churches do great mission work who do not use the Faith Promise plan. But, those doing a good work, in all probability, could do even better with Faith Promise.

What Faith Promise Giving is.

Faith Promise giving is giving by the grace of God as taught in the New Testament. (2 Cor. 8:1, 7, 8) — “Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; Therefore, as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”

Faith Promise is trusting God to give through us, for the cause of world evangelization, what He would not otherwise give to us.

Faith Promise is giving as God enables. It is God’s ability, and not our own, that provides what we give.

Faith Promise is church centered and promotes the overall ministry of the church.

Faith Promise is an organized, purposeful approach to missions giving in a church.

Faith Promise involves every member in a church. Whether young or old, rich or poor, all may participate in this exciting exercise of faith in God to give to world evangelization.

How Faith Promise Giving works.

In a Missions Conference the members are made aware of the needs of world wide missions and how God desires to finance it.

Each member is then encouraged to pray for an amount that he will trust the Lord to provide on a regular basis.

A commitment is made between the individual and God, that, if the Lord will supply, a specific amount will be given regularly through his church the coming year.

That amount is placed on a commitment card, unsigned, and turned in. All of these cards are totaled so that the church may have a general idea of the amount of mission work it can plan to budget for the coming year.

The Results of Faith Promise.

Individual members and the church as a whole will experience an increased faith in God to supply the needs, not only for world evangelization, but for every area of their lives.

The church will experience an increase in her missions giving. As a result, more missionaries and mission projects can be supported.

The average church can expect an increase in her regular giving.

The church will have a greater awareness of mission activity around the world.

The individual will experience the thrill and joy of knowing that they have become a real partner with the missionaries and in the work being done.

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