Open Door Baptist Missions

Donna and I prayed for over two years to be linked with a sound, fundamental, Baptist mission board for several reasons: we wanted to help recruit missionaries, promote missions, be under the accountability of a mission board, and have a vehicle to travel abroad and help missionaries around the world. In February of 2008, our prayers were answered. 

Morningside Baptist Church

I was asked to speak at a Men's Conference at Morningside Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, which is the center for Open Door Baptist Missions. Pastor Tony Miller and I spoke about the opportunity of representing ODBM as we travel. 

Pastor Tony Miller

Pastor Miller connected us with the Director of ODBM, John Burnette. We spoke with him and his wife for nearly three hours that Sunday night and really connected. Long story short, we were interviewed by the pastoral staff and deacons of Morningside the Wednesday before Easter of 2008, and were accepted as missionaries with ODBM.  

Mr. and Mrs. John Burnette

On Easter Sunday we went forward in the evening service to express our desire to be members of Morningside. We are so grateful for our long relationship with Faith Baptist Church in Corona, Queens (the church I planted in 1974). We had been members there for several years and they were handling our financial contributions and producing our prayer letter. We dearly love Pastor Vincent Sawyer and all the members of FBC, and thank them for their continued monthly support, and we look forward every summer to working with them two of the eight weeks of our NYSET ministry. We are so thankful for this connection with ODBM, a local church mission board that started in 1990 and already has 76 missionaries in 19 countries.