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By Mike Clark
The story of Legacy Baptist Church is a story
of churches reproducing churches and the
partnership effort with BIMI and Reseeding
America. I am the founding pastor of Legacy
Baptist Church, and my story starts
with salvation, call to preach, and
call to missions at Heritage Baptist
Church in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Dr. Michael Edwards left the city
of Pittsburgh to go to Woodbridge
and plant Heritage.

America would be a help for us, so for the
second time we became BIMI missionaries!
We quickly raised our needed support
and founded Legacy Baptist in
May 2011 in the South Hills of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Brother
Larson and Reseeding America
were a tremendous help in those
early planning and planting stages.

We have become close partners in
missions with BIMI ever since.

Dr. Edwards introduced me to
Legacy has been a portable church
BIMI where Terri, my wife, and I
for 13 years. Our people have
Mike & Terri Clark
became missionaries to Ukraine.

faithfully and joyfully set up and
We served overseas for several years before the
torn down in hotels, storefronts, community
Lord brought us back stateside. I remember
centers, pavilions, and parking lots over the
how devastated I was when we could not
years. We are currently building and getting
return to the foreign field. I also remember
ready to open our own church building this
Dr. Edwards saying to me, “Mike, the Lord has
September. We are so excited to finally have a
removed the foreign field from you and Terri.

place of our own.

However, you can still pastor and support
We praise the Lord we have been able to help
missions from a church here in America.” That
over 70 church planters through the years and
is exactly what we have done.

have given hundreds of thousands of dollars
Through the years the Lord allowed us
to world missions. Currently, we are making
to serve at Graceway Baptist Church in
plans to help start two new churches in the
Charlotte, North Carolina. Pastor Chris
greater Pittsburgh area.

Edwards left Heritage to plant Graceway.

From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Wood-
While at Graceway we set up childcare
bridge, Virginia; to Charlotte, North Caro-
centers, schools, and even saw the church get
lina; then back to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
property of its own. We learned much while
the legacy of our church is the legacy of the
working in this church plant that helped us
Gospel and that of the local New Testament
tremendously in the planting of Legacy.

Baptist church obeying the command to send
While at Graceway we knew God was leading
and to go. I wonder what the legacy of your
us to start a church with Graceway becoming
giving and your partnering with BIMI and
the sending church. Terri and I knew
Reseeding America can be? W
that partnering with BIMI and Reseeding
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