A Needy Nation
It is amazing and many times
shocking to realize that in the day
we live, there are many regions and
places across the United States where
multitudes of people have never
heard the good news that Jesus saves.

In Acts 1:8 the Lord gave the church
the scope or boundaries of His Great
Commission. His command for the
church was to go into Jerusalem, and
in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth.

We cannot and must not reach one
area without the other or one region
to the exclusion of the other. All four
areas mentioned in Acts 1:8 are to
be reached by the church and to be
done so simultaneously. The world is
a vast mission field but let us always
remember that America is part of
that world. Missions is not geography.

Missions is people.

Religious Nones
An Unreached People Group
Religious nones are people living in the
United States who describe themselves
as atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in
particular” when asked about their
religious affiliation in surveys. According
to Pew Research in 1972 only five percent
of all Americans were nones. In 1991,
it was seven percent but today it is 30
percent. Based on current population
figures nones now number over one
hundred million in America. The
percentage of nones between the ages of
12 and 28 is now running 40 percent.

Here is the interesting thing about this
group. A very low percentage happen to
be atheist or agnostic. Most when they
are surveyed believe in God or a higher
power. Over half consider themselves to
have spiritual thoughts and they admit
they struggle with disbelief.

We might just be overlooking an entire
unreached people group that live
amongst us. Nones are everywhere in
the United States, and they now make
up a third of our population. Would
you pray that our BIMI United States
missionaries would be able to reach a
portion of this unreached people group?



USA
60 Years of Church Planting in America
Since 1963, the United States division of BIMI has always been about bringing Biblical change to
America through the planting of new churches. In recent years our Reseeding America church
planters have continued to plant New Testament Baptist churches in areas of our country where
Bible-believing churches were desperately needed. Over the past decade many of our USA
church-planting missionaries have started churches in what we call “mainstream” America.

Others have planted churches to reach different ethnic groups in our nation and still others
have planted churches to reach the Deaf and Native Americans. We appreciate the efforts of
all our USA missionaries over the years. Today more than ever before we need to reach our
homeland with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is also important to remember we can increase our
missionary force worldwide by increasing our missionary source here at home. By investing in
USA church planting, your mission offering or mission support for a USA missionary church
planter will be multiplied tenfold, twenty-fold, even thirty-fold. This is accomplished when a
USA missionary gets a new church started and challenges his congregation to get involved in
sending and supporting new missionaries out to the worldwide harvest.

Church Restart &
Restoration Ministry
Today, less than 30% of all Americans attend church on a regular basis. As a result,
churches are dying in exceptionally large numbers. Over the past ten years this has
been a trend that appears to be accelerating.

For the past ten years Reseeding America has been conducting a church revitalization
program to assist churches in decline. Because many of these churches do not
have a pastor, we begin with trying to locate
a man who can restart the church. We first
try to utilize our BIMI missionaries who have
returned to the States from a foreign field. Many
times, their missionary experience in starting a
church and pastoring a congregation can prove
to be a huge help and blessing for churches that
need to be rescued. We also utilize men for
church restarts who have the same doctrinal
position and standards that we hold to who
have contacted us and are available for this type
of ministry. The age-old problem has always
been manpower and we are constantly looking
for capable and trained men to assist us in this
great restoration effort.

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