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A word from your Missions Office By HEITH MITCHELL The highlight of January in your BMA of Texas Missions is our annual Intern Retreat. The Lord has faithfully made this a very special and productive retreat for young interns from our churches. This year was no exception. We fellowshipped in Christ, sang, shared testimonies, prayed, cooked, ate, and played together. All were encouraged and equipped in leadership, perseverance, and personal walk with Christ. Brad Holcomb and Morgan Standifer planned and led the conference this year. Brad Holcomb, Brad Cauley, Kyle Cheathum, Morgan Standifer, and I invested in the equipping. Here are some photos. Your Texas Missions is honored to do our part to equip future leaders of the BMA. We are committed to investing in 12 young interns per year in partnership with BMA churches. God is raising wonderful young people who will impact the Kingdom through the BMA.
A word from your missionaries:  Israel Martinez– Redeemer Irving [email protected] We see people growing in faithfulness. Some hear God's word and are struggling with submitting to God's word and seeing the connection between the love of God and the love of people. However, overall there is a sense of unity and desire to really love each other as a church family! Prayer Needs: Pray for our finances specifically for some reserves to come in for cash flow management. Pray for no division and unity and that new people will come and mesh with the members!  Haitao He– Free Salvation Bible Mission - Corpus Christi [email protected] We have a member that encounter a career crisis recently, in the middle of waiting and confusing time. We support each other through prayer meeting, seeking God’s wisdom, and helping each other understand the deeper meaning behind challenges like this. A career crisis and financial stress can feel overwhelming, but walking through it with faith and community can bring clarity and hope. We have some updates with good news and we are praying without ceasing. Prayer Needs: Pray that we will get close to God and find comfort and strength in facing life crisis.  Isaias Martinez - Conroe Mission [email protected] The Mission is progressing normally for the Glory of God. A new family joined the Church, and we received a new member of the Church. Prayer Needs: Pray for the progress of the work in this place. Pray for our Hispanic brothers and sisters who are fearful of the constant anti-immigrant raids.  Jose Gil - Proyecto Misionero "Lidia" – Spring [email protected] We are deepening our fellowship time with attendees in the two cells we serve (Spring and Conroe). Fear to deportation is in the heart of a couple in the latter. Nevertheless, they keep open their house for evangelism and discipleship. As they have expressed a sort of resentment with the new government regulations, I have counseled and asked to keep focused in the faith on Jesus and not on political affairs, looking for legal advise to do what they must do, and sharing a good testimony for other is their same -or worse- circumstances. Prayer Needs: For my friends in Conroe who fear deportation, they are looking for legal advise at this time.  Jose Torres– Iglesia Nueva Vide en Cristo - Tyler [email protected] We’re happy to inform the churches of the BMA of Texas that our church plant has had several visitors at our worship services this month most of them have been through the relationships of our people. We have also had a great response adding more members serve during our services. We are pleased to see fruit coming from those we’ve all invested in. Thank you for your continued cooperation! Prayer Needs: Please help me to pray for the people we are ministering to so that they can continue to draw closer to the Lord.  Bro. John Sage explaining the Lord's Supper  Jaime Garcia– Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida - Gilmer [email protected] I am concerned about young people and their passions. It is very natural that they have misunderstandings and I would not want them to be carnal but to bear things spiritually. There is also a couple who are about to divorce and we have wanted to give them talks or counseling using us as an example but the woman is already firm in her decision. The brother directs the order of service on Sundays and is faithfully involved in the ministry, we can count on anything we can count on him, but after this situation his self-esteem has dropped. Pray that they will not divorce and that he will not be discouraged. Prayer Request: Thank you for including me in your prayers and I ask you to help me with prayer for my family and for the families of the church who have some fear because of immigration raids, we have had to encourage them with the word of God to remain firm and increase their faith even in difficult times.  Bro. Nelson led the prayer for the brothers who had their birthdays in January  Kevin Williams– Port Arthur Mission [email protected] We have a name for our church! We are planting Redeemer Baptist Church/Iglesia Bautista Redentor here in Port Arthur. As I’ve been praying and thinking of a name one of the things that has struck me about PA is that there really is a sense of hopelessness in this city. There is a stigma that hovers over the area that things are bad and that’s just the way they’ll stay because change is impossible. Thankfully, we know a God whose expertise includes the impossible! Our God is a redeeming God. That’s the core of the Gospel! We are energized to spread the Gospel message throughout Port Arthur in any way we can and see the Lord grow the scattered seed! Will you pray with us that God would redeem a harvest of souls in our city? Prayer Needs: For opportunities to share the Gospel. Endurance to press on in difficulty. Physical and spiritual protection for me and my family. Growth of our discipleship group (in number and spiritual).  Brad Cauley– Cedar Park Mission [email protected] God continues to bless our group as members go deeper in their personal devotion to Christ, encourage one another as a family, and practice spiritual conversations with neighbors and coworkers. Each week we celebrate how members have "spoken Jesus' name" with those in their lives. Several people will share while the rest listen and encourage each other and pray for those we share with. When a business lady entered our group, she was hesitation to even mention God, or prayer, or any spiritual topics outside of Christian circles. After a few weeks she began bringing up God in conversations, then mentioning Jesus' name until she began with confidence to boldly seek out opportunities to share His name, His story, and how He's changed her life. What a joy to see her confidence and boldness grow. Now Candice is helping her train her daughter-in-law to share her faith with friends and coworkers! We are praying the Lord would build an army of servants who love Him and love sharing His story. Prayer Needs: Please pray for more hearts open to the gospel, for our people to continue to grow in their courage to share His name, and for blessing to reach more people.  Chris Driver– West Texas Multiplication Network/ Texas Missionary Care [email protected] Howdy from West Texas! Well, the new year has started out with a BANG! We had our first baptism service in our building (we usually throw a big party at my house and use the pool but it's a little too cold in January). The candidates all shared their testimonies and even had the chance to baptize a husband who then baptized his wife! God is so awesome! We have almost doubled our regular attendance over the last 3-4 months. Obviously that's an awesome thing, but it's also started us having to consider next steps if we continue to grow at this rate! What's so fun about this is that it's coming from our people being faithful to be the church and reach out to their friends and family! God is really moving here at Oasis and I can't wait to see what the rest of the year holds!! .Prayer Needs: Need a Ministry Van New remodel possibilities in light of new growth Possibility of coffee shop ministry Open doors for the gospel in Levelland, Sundown, and SPC  Tim Alba– The Bridge Mission in Seagoville [email protected] We are doing great and holding strong. We have seen much growth both spiritually and in numbers in our services. More people are wanting to be discipled and many others are wanting to give and serve more in the church. I think 2025 is going to be a strong year for our Church. God is doing great things through our little Church and we are excited to be a part of it. Prayer Needs: Just continue to pray for our Church and the mission God has given us here in the Seagoville area.  Chris Mindi– Anchor Austin Mission in Leander [email protected] God is continuing to bless us in 2025 with renewed enthusiasm and inspiring every day to pursue HIM and serve others around us sincerely. leaders are being developed for HIS glory, and new families are being touched. Many gospel conversations are being held. Please continue to pray for Anchor Austin Church as we lead and put our efforts in reaching more younger generations of American Indians and win them for Christ. Prayer Needs: For the Leadership and leaders being mentored. For new families, to call Anchor Austin 'home'. For renewed passion in our people to follow God and delight in him every day.  Kyle Cheatham– Grace Church Jarrell Mission [email protected] A woman in our church was asked by her nail technician about the Bible, asking if it would be an appropriate gift for her 11 year old who had expressed interest. The mom is a cultural Buddhist and specifically wanted to know if it was “safe for her son”. The woman from our church shared about the Bible, talked about Jesus and shared the Gospel in a Nutshell, following up later by giving her a Bible and a pamphlet on why we trust the Bible. The woman was blown away. // A man in our church was executive coaching a Muslim surgeon, and was able to talk for hours over four meetings about Christianity and Islam, the Trinity, the cross. Although it led to the Muslim firing the man as his coach, our man was faithful and gospel seeds were planted! Prayer Needs: 1. Pray for those with whom our members have been sharing the gospel—that they will repent and believe in Jesus. 2. Pray for our Discipleship strategy to come together. 3. Pray for our family as we soon will grieve the loss of the patriarch of our family.  Luis H. Perez - Igelsia Bautista Gracia Soberana - Kyle [email protected] Thank God we have a young couple attending our congregation, and there are two more who come at least twice a month. Problems are nothing out of the ordinary, and the struggles are the same as every day. Thank God, nothing serious! Prayer Needs: Just that you continue to pray for Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. And that you pray for me and my wife since I am going to bring my dad first to live with me and then my mom. Pray for my mom her name is Virginia Pérez she is in somewhat delicate in health.  Marvin Medina– Plano Mission [email protected] This month has been quite busy, the lack of work, the news has filled the networks, thank God the meetings have been fulfilled, we have had economic problems but God has been our sustenance, this year we want to strengthen ourselves in discipleship. Prayer Needs: My Family, Ministry, and Economic Situation Comments are closed.
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