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A word from your Missions Office By HEITH MITCHELL Your Texas Missions will humbly take on the important responsibility of the Baptist Progress should you approve the proposed constitutional changes in the executive committee meeting May 20, 2025. We know how important this ministry is to our BMA Family and every ministry that comprises our partnerships. We know that it must continue. We believe in the importance of the physical paper that we are all used to and love. We also understand the necessity to pursue multiple different avenues to connect with different ages and different cultures. We can see a path for partnership that could dramatically reduce the costs of the Baptist Progress and allow for several staff to work together in this ministry. We do not believe that we are equipped to do better than the fine job that Bro. Jerry Fulton has done for decades. We do believe the Lord is orchestrating this change. We believe that God faithfully equips us when we follow His lead by faith. In Christ, I expect big things from a future agency known as the Baptist Progress. To each BMA of Texas Missions giving partner, we want to assure you that your investments in missions will remain missions investments. You are faithful, and giving has increased by over 14 percent this year. We are humbly grateful and want to steward those funds faithfully as intended. We believe a Baptist Progress agency budget should sustain itself through shared costs and reductions that would come from no longer operating as a department. Of course, this would depend on continued partnerships with BMA churches and ministries. As the director of BMA Texas Missions, I have also been assigned the role as executive director of the BMA of Texas, a duty assigned to me by each of you in the BMA of Texas Constitution. In that role, it is my responsibility to promote the BMA of Texas and each of our important ministry departments. I know that BMA of Texas churches are also BMA of America churches and also value each of the ministries that make up BMA of America. We are all better off in a healthy, thriving, informed BMA. In Christ, I trust that the future will mean Progress for BMA Baptists. Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done.  PROJECT 2029 100 New Churches/10 Years
A word from your missionaries:  Kyle Cheatham– Grace Church Jarrell Mission [email protected] One of the things I love most about our church is the willingness of our people to serve. We have four men who are becoming a teaching team to cover about 25 percent of the preaching throughout the year. I will oversee them and help to equip them, with all of us giving input. At our Member Meeting this month, I shared needs for a repair to a light fixture, for someone to oversee all maintenance needs, for someone to do data entry from visitor cards, and for someone to keep our sanctuary chairs straightened and stocked with Connect Cards, envelopes, etc. Before the day was over, all of those needs were covered with people enthusiastic to help. Additionally, so many of our people served our family at the memorial for my father-in-law and blessed us with food, time, help and more. It’s wonderful when the church family truly interacts as the Body of Christ! Prayer Needs: Please pray for wisdom and financial provision as the shop next to us in our shopping center has become available. Expanding would be a wonderful opportunity, especially due to the few space options in our small town. However, to do so would require a good bit of support.  Brad Cauley– Cedar Park Mission [email protected] God continues to build His love and grace through our community. Mark came to our group last year with a Catholic background, but not a vibrant faith in Jesus. We worked through conspiracy theories and many other ideas as we directed his heart to the Word of God. After a few months in the word, Mark began to change. He eventually hosted our meeting in his home on Sunday evening, but had invited family and friends over for a party beforehand in hopes that they would join us in Bible study. Some stayed. His sister was not able to, but made sure to tell us how grateful she was for our Bible study because her brother had been changed through our time in the Word. A few months later, Mark brought his neighbor Bob to our meeting. Bob had no church background and was also concerned about conspiracy theories. After one Bible study, he was discussing those concerns as I tried to redirect the conversation to Christ. Mark finally interrupted and said, "You don't need to worry about all that. What you need is truth. Jesus is the truth. You just need Him!" What a change God has worked in Mark's heart and mind. A few months later, after being loved well by our people, Bob put his faith in Jesus and prayed to receive Christ with tears of joy around the room on March 16. Mark, our new evangelist, experienced the love of Christ, grew in the Lord and poured out that love on his neighbors, one of whom had his name written in the Lamb's book of life this month. What a faithful God we serve! Prayer Needs: Please pray for more members to share the love of Jesus with others and have the privilege of watching them receive Christ. Please ask for more favor with the community and opportunities to make relationships and to serve.  Eric Jordan - Breath of Praise – Brownwood [email protected] We have had wonderful testimonies about how the Word of God is transforming. People are now able to live in a way that pleases God understand that the Lord Jesus wants to live His life through them. Prayer Needs: That the Lord sends an Associate Pastor.  Haitao He– Free Salvation Bible Mission - Corpus Christi [email protected] We have a young man with an addiction who is seeking help. He is struggling mentally and emotionally. We listen to him without judgment and share the story of the prodigal son that God welcomes back those who turn from their ways. We encourage him to live a lifestyle change to avoid any temptation and put God first. We are helping him with the process and praying for God's healing power to work on him. Prayer Needs: Pray that God will heal and renew the spirits for those who suffer from addiction and want to be set free.  Kevin Williams– Port Arthur Mission [email protected] A lemonade stand was not what I would have expected God to use as a bridge to crack open doors into our neighborhood, but that's exactly what happened a few weeks ago. As I took my children to knock on doors and let neighbors know that they would be selling lemonade, I had some good conversations. One in particular was with a lady named Irasema who lives a couple houses down from us. We have had contact before, but it had been a while since we had talked with her. I told her that we had started having Bible study on Sundays in our home and invited her to join us. She told me before that she attends the Catholic church a couple blocks away. However, she expressed interest and went so far as to say, "I believe God has brought you into my life for a reason." She has yet to attend, which I believe is due to shyness, so I plan to go by this week and try to touch base and encourage her. Please be in prayer for Irasema and ask the Lord to work in her to draw her to Himself. Prayer Needs: Please be in prayer for continued physical and spiritual protection for our family. Also, pray for Roberto and Betsy, who are basically part of our core team, as we have been discipling them for several months now. Lastly, pray for the seeds planted with neighbors and coworkers through conversations to grow into opportunities for full gospel conversations.  Jose Torres– Iglesia Nueva Vide en Cristo - Tyler [email protected] God’s Word has been challenging us to a full surrender to serve our Lord at Iglesia Nueva Vida en Cristo of Tyler. There is no doubt that God is with us. We sense His presence in our lives but especially when we gather for worship. He is being praised in spirit and in truth, and when that happens, He speaks to us and directs us to what is next. What is next at Nueva Vida is for us to surrender and serve. We are being challenged to serve our Lord with what He has given us. We have a small band of believers. We do not have our own building, but there is a true church forming. We look forward to hosting three exciting events involving other churches and plants in our area that will give us a great opportunity to put our service into action. God is good, and so are the churches of the BMA of Texas. Prayer Needs: I ask for your prayers for three events in our area association that we will be hosting in the coming months, a Sunday school workshop in a few more days, our east Texas church meeting in June, and a women's meeting in September. We are very excited about this blessing but we need prayer that the name of the Lord will be exalted in these events.  Isaias Martinez - Conroe Mission [email protected] During this month we were able to deepen the work of the prayer and discipleship cells, organizing a new cell. To God be the Glory! Prayer Needs: Please pray for our church as we move toward having a place of our own.  Chris Driver– West Texas Multiplication Network/ Texas Missionary Care [email protected] Howdy from west Texas! Things continue to go well here in west Texas, except for the two major dirt storms that came through last month. We continue to grow and have new visitors almost every week. We are finally making some progress in Sundown and even the college. We hope to have a new group started in Sundown in the next few months. Thank you for your support and your prayers. Prayer Needs: Ministry van Coffee shop/trailer ministry start up New group to form in Sundown Open doors for the gospel  Ministry challenges in west Texas are different. Comments are closed.
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