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BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS,
INC., was founded in 1960 as an independent
Baptist faith mission. BIMI is a fundamental
mission agency, true to the Word of God in
doctrine and method. The purpose of BIMI
is to assist fundamental Baptist churches in
fulfilling our Lord’s command to evangelize
the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our objectives are to establish indigenous
Baptist churches and train national pastors and
leaders. There are over 750 missionaries with
BIMI working in 100 fields of the world.

OFFICERS/BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mike Norris, Chairman; Robert Wall, Vice
Chairman; David Snyder, President; J.B.

Godfrey, Vice President; James Butler,
Corporate Secretary; Michael Edwards,
Treasurer; Joel Bixler, Paul Chappell, Michael
Creed, Nathan Deatrick, Chris Edwards,
Dale Freeman, David Gamble, John Godfrey
Jr., John Godfrey Sr., C.O. Grinstead, John
Herdman, Rodney Kelley, Tad Marshall,
Dean Miller, David Mims, David Pittman,
James Ray, Don Sisk, Rusty Smith, Tom
Wallace ADMINISTRATION/FIELD DIRECTORS
David Snyder, General Director; JB Godfrey,
Executive Director; James Butler, International
Office Director; Doug Cunningham,
Comptroller; Ken Fink, Business Manager;
Bryan Baggett, Military; Jeff Bassett,
Enrichment; Eric Bohman, Africa; Alan
Brooks, Assistant Southeast Asia; Tony
Bulawa, Far North; Dan DeLong, Candidate,
Deputation; Bob Green, Aviation; David
Harris, Far East; Ed Hembree, Europe; Terry
Jones, Central America; Robert Larson, USA;
Jim Lilley, Estate Planning; Sean Lunday, South
America; Steven Maldoff, Southeast Asia;
Jason Ritchie, Camp BIMI; Gary Sprunger,
Caribbean; Carl Vonnoh, CLAIM
REPRESENTATIVES Gailen Abbett, Jeff Alverson, Bob Green, Mark
Logan, James Ray
STAFF Ken Catoe, Printing Services; Kevin Wnuk,
Computer Services
BIMI World
David Snyder, Executive Editor; Ken Catoe,
Editor; Jonathan Bergen, Designer; Field
Editors: Eric Bohman, Africa; Alan Brooks,
Southeast Asia; Tony Bulawa, Far North;
David Harris, Far East; Stuart Jellison, Military;
Ed Johnson, Brazil; Robert Larson, USA; Mark
Lockhart, Central America; Gary Sprunger,
Caribbean; Donald Thatcher, Europe; Clint
Vernoy, South America
Official Publication of
Baptist International Missions, Inc.

All Scripture quotations are from the KJV.

Mailing Address:
PO Box 9 - Harrison, TN 37341
Shipping Address:
8614 Harrison Bay Road - Harrison, TN
37341 Phone: (423) 344-5050 / Fax: (423) 344-4774
Info@bimi.org / www.bimi.org
BIMI Canada:
100 Ridgewood Ave. - Guelph, ON N1H 6C5
519-265-1950 aspects of consecration could be described by words like the
ones used in the acrostic below.

The Apostle Paul serves as an amazing example of a
missionary who was totally consecrated to the task of
worldwide evangelization. When Paul was called by God
to be His servant, Paul completely consecrated himself
to fulfill that role. As a result, Paul was used to change
his entire world. Because of his history of vehemently
persecuting Christians, it seems that Paul would be among
those least likely to be chosen as a missionary. Nonetheless,
the Lord was able to use Paul tremendously because he had
completely consecrated himself to do the will of God. This
brings up the following question: If one consecrated man
could reach his world, what would happen if multitudes of
Christians would consecrate themselves to reach our world?
I believe the answer to this question is self-evident.

So why is total consecration so imperative? It is because we
have been commanded to reach every nation. God did not
say we were to reach as many nations
as we think possible. His expectation
C rucifying
has never been for us to reach a
certain percentage of the nations.

O beying
Jesus commanded us to go into all
N ourishing
the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature (Mark 16:15). 2 This
S eparating
is something only God can do.

Nonetheless, He has chosen to do
E difying
this work through servants who
have totally consecrated themselves
C leansing
to doing His will. Romans 12:1
reminds us that God wants each of
R eleasing
us to be a living sacrifice. To truly be
A dapting
a living sacrifice, we cannot be fully-
surrendered and self-centered at the
T rusting
same time—it is an all-or-nothing
proposition. So, if we are going to
I mproving
reach every nation for God, there
must be total consecration to God.

O vercoming
With evil becoming more public
N urturing
and more rampant, the need for
laborers who have given themselves
completely to the Lord becomes more urgent. However, the
evil of this world seems to have affected the willingness of
Christians to completely consecrate themselves to the Great
Commission. It is interesting to realize that while the evil in
our world today demands total consecration to reach every
nation, the same evil hinders us from being completely
consecrated. May God help each of us to be committed to
Total Consecration To Reach Every Nation—despite our evil
world and because of it! W
1 2
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consecrate Emphasis added
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