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LOCATION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES SPECIAL EDITION | 2014- 2015 ANNUAL REPORT American Baptist Foreign Mission Society P.O INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES VOL. 8, NO. 2 N|LOCATION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES SPECIAL EDITION | 2014- 2015 ANNUAL REPORT American Baptist Foreign Mission Society P.O. Box 851 • Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851 N|LOCATION SPECIAL EDITION • 2014–2015 ANNUAL REPORT (P. 16–18) ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN Five… four… three… two… one… LIFT OFF! ur navigation is set. Our With our churches, partners and YOU, God is using IM to: Accelerate the appointments of new global personnel course is determined. and the sending of short-term volunteers. Deepen our commitment to pioneering and ground- breaking approaches to evangelism. We are on the launch Experiment in new methods to deliver theological O education to women and men who lack access to it. pad with rockets firing. It’s time… Expand work globally among families in desperate situations, including immigrants and refugees. to lift off into the future of God’s Build a vital, thriving youth and young adult ministry to transform hearts and minds and help young people to vision for International Ministries. discover their callings. Create and reinforce connections that circle the earth promoting mission from “everywhere to everyone.”* This is indeed a bold and historic moment for IM, Stay sharply focused on sustainable growth and stew- our global personnel, U.S and Puerto Rico churches, ardship. global partners and volunteers. The collective wisdom of 2,000 brothers and sisters worldwide Respond to your call with IM! There is a place for you has been gathered and prayerfully analyzed. And in global mission with IM. There are people who need an ambitious vision has been discerned. It is a vision your heart, your skills, your talents and your love. that is guiding us into deeper impact in global God is at work transforming all of creation and you mission. A vision that increasingly positions us are part of that work! Want to talk about it? Contact Photo by Victoria Marcklinger together to live out God’s will “on earth as in heaven.” Karen Smith, director of Mission Design, at (Matthew 6:10 NABRE) [email protected]. *IM is grateful to friend, colleague and theologian Samuel Escobar for coining Thanks to Baptist volunteer mission construction teams and this phrase. See his book The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere ongoing support through International Ministries, these RESPONDING to Everyone (©2003, Intervarsity Press). children will, when they turn five years old, be able to attend a TO THE CALL school in their impoverished Haitian/Dominican village in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. See “Far-Reaching Impact from Short-Term Mission Trips,” starting on page 10. I481.PUB.05/16 Letter from the Executive Director IN THIS ISSUE Letter from the In 2014–2015, American Baptist International Letter from the Executive Director .................2 Board President Ministries (IM) established new mission partnerships Letter from the Board President ......................3 in Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Mexico. We appointed Two decisions missionaries to work in Turkey and endorsed others to “Ready for Either” ...............................................3 by the Interna- prepare for service in Ghana, Hungary and regionally Remembering Charlotte ...................................4 tional Ministries Board of Direc- in Africa (see p. 9). California Church Rallies around Sending of IM Global Servant .....................6 tors in March, We completed interviews with some 2,000 people 2016, will shape around the world. From this, we discerned God calling Volunteering or Voluntouring? ........................8 the next decade us to increase the impact of our ministries in four fo- Vocational Development ..................................9 of IM’s mission cused areas: inviting people to faith in Jesus, proclaiming God’s reign through engagement. holistic ministries, equipping the body of Christ for mission and pursuing Far-Reaching Impact from Short-Term Mission Trips ............................10 First, the board approved an operational organizational excellence. This Responding to the Call plan was unanimously Global Personnel ..............................................12 guide for Responding to the Call (RTC), approved by the IM Board of Directors. the strategic plan that was approved Last year, after I announced that I would be retir- Board of Directors ...........................................14 last June. Supported by the operational ing at the end of August 2016, our Board adopted an International Partners ��������������������������������������14 guide, RTC sets our strategic direction executive director succession plan, formed a Search for a third century of mission. IM Staff Leadership ..........................................14 “Ready for Either” Committee and engaged an executive search firm that Second, the board named the Rev. assisted an open, nationwide search. That process Annual Report 2014–2015 by Stan Slade, associate executive director for program Focused Impact Areas ................................16 Sharon Koh as executive director of IM, culminated in the selection of the Rev. Sharon Koh as effective September 1, 2016. In God’s 2014–2015 Financial Snapshot ������������������18 The official seal of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society IM’s next executive director. matchless providence, Koh served on featured an ox, a plow and an altar, with the words, “Ready for either.” Sharon has a strong commitment to the Lord and Mission Advancement .....................................19 the IM Discernment Team that de- We are grateful to God that at no point along the way has Reid Trulson to the mission of God in the world. She has travelled Lift Off! ............................................... back cover veloped RTC. Her appointment as been called upon to ascend the altar to make the ultimate sacrifice for widely, providing oversight and care to missionaries executive director provides a seamless the reign of God, but shouldering the plow in sacrificial service has serving with a variety of mission agencies, and transition into the next stage of RTC. characterized Reid’s life all along the way. is well known by a number of IM missionaries. Rev. Sharon Koh God is always ahead of us—and that is Qualities cultivated during his boyhood years on the farm in south- We will introduce Sharon more fully in the next why we follow rather than lead. www.internationalministries.org eastern Minnesota have come in handy in the most varied of places ON LOCATION and invite you to meet her at the July 4–9 World Mission The Gospel of Matthew describes and circumstances! He has responded to the call to seek the common Conference at Green Lake. Jesus calling his first disciples. Referring good in almost every role he has held, from president of the student This issue of International Ministries ON LOCATION introduces yet another to James and John, sons of Zebedee, bodies of both his high school and Fuller Seminary and leader of the remarkable woman, Charlotte H. Atlee White Rowe, the first single woman Matthew tells us, “Jesus called them, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, to appointed and sent into mission service from America. Charlotte Rowe was INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES and immediately they left the boat and president of the boards of the ABC of Wisconsin and of International a forerunner of the pioneering women who in 1871 created the Woman’s N|LOCATION their father and followed him.” (4:22) Ministries—in every community, Reid has risen to the challenge of American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, affirming that God calls women— SPRING 2016, VOL. 7, NO. 2 James and John left the security of oc- leadership. And whether working on the staff of the oldest African- both married and single—into full partnership in mission. cupation and family. They stepped out Reid S. Trulson, executive director American Baptist Church in Pasadena, California (Friendship Baptist Catherine Nold, communications director in faith to follow Jesus. Church), pastoring two congregations in Wisconsin or encouraging I am delighted that in the 145th anniversary year of that historic event, our Laura Timmel, editorial assistant sister Sharon Koh is responding to God’s call to lead us together in mission. Devon Nassif, senior designer Today Jesus, calls you and me to international partners and fellow missionaries as first a missionary in follow him. We step out in faith. We Europe, then an area director and now executive director for IM, Reid To subscribe to this free newsletter, send your name & address to: respond to his call. This is how the IM has demonstrated great creativity, thoughtfulness, patience, resilience, On Location humor and faith in the Lord International Ministries board views the decisions we made in P.O. Box 851 March. We are thankful that you too who called him to each of these Valley Forge, PA 19482 Reid S. Trulson follow Jesus and desire to live in faith- places of service to the mission For more information, contact Catherine Nold fulness. Together we work to fulfill of God. Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-768-2182 Jesus’ prayer to his Heavenly Father: All who have been privi- “your kingdom come, your will be done leged to work with Reid along on earth as it is in heaven.” (Mathew the way are grateful for his World Mission Conference 2016 6:10) example of faith, hope and WORLD On Earth as in Heaven love. We pray God’s richest blessing upon him, his wife, MISSION Janelle, and the whole family CONFERENCE as he continues responding to the call in whatever fresh ways Register today and save! Reginald Mills “retirement” may bring! Pre-registration is open until June 10. www.worldmissionconference.org SPECIAL EDITION | ON LOCATION SPRING 2016 3 Remembering Charlotte by Reid S. Trulson, executive director Her Life Haverhill to Philadelphia, she trans- duced to accompany them to India.” part funeral. “On the impulse of the Baptists to appoint single women. Charlotte Hazen Atlee (1782–1863) ferred her membership to the Sansom When Charlotte asked the Board moment,” Charlotte wrote, the Pres- When the Board would not send out Ellen “Nellie” Mitchell pioneered was a woman of distinction.
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