Executive Director Emeritus

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• Dr. Ray Thompson was saved at age 13 and called to preach at age 16. During the Second Annual Missions Conference at Highland Park Baptist Church, while attending Tennessee Temple Bible College, he answered God’s call to be a missionary at age 18.

• Married Jean Carey in 1952—Jean answered God’s call to be a missionary at the early age of nine. God blessed their marriage with two children, a son, Steven Ray, and a daughter, Catherine Grace.

• The Thompsons went to the West Indies in 1955 as church planting missionaries commissioned by Highland Park Baptist Church and Worldwide Faith Missions of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

• They served in the Virgin Islands 22 years in church planting, Bible camp ministries, radio broadcasting, and training national workers. They helped establish Bluewater Bible College & Institute on the Island of St. Thomas and he served as president for sixteen years.

• They joined Baptist International Missions, Inc., in 1964, and he was appointed to serve as the Caribbean Director for the Mission and was commissioned to help expand the work of Baptist missions throughout the West Indies. In 1977 he was asked by BIMI leadership to direct the Caribbean ministry from the BIMI World Missions Center. This gave opportunity to promote missions in churches, and schools via meetings and conferences in America as well as other parts of the world.

• Elected Executive Director and Vice President in 1991—As an officer of BIMI, Dr. Thompson is engaged in administrative responsibilities including preaching in church missions conferences in America and foreign countries, ministering in Bible colleges and seminaries, and participating in BIMI Field Conferences.

• Appointed as Executive Director Emeritus in 2011—Dr. Ray Thompson continues to serve our missionaries and their churches in any way that is available to him. He like all other BIMI missionaries has a passion to see the Word of God and its message of Christ’s redemptive work presented to the whole world.

BIMI E-MAIL: Dr. Ray Thompson

He may be contacted through the BIMI office
(423) 344-5050

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Scot C & Katie Daku -  AMERICAN SAMOA
Paul J & Wendy Daku Jr -  FIJI ISLANDS
James & Dawn Daley -  INDONESIA