North American Mission Board
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The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is the domestic missions agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. It exists to assist Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission in the United States, Canada, and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners. Funding for this agency comes from the gifts of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. Annie Armstrong (1850–1938) was an advocate for missions at home and abroad. 100 percent of AAEO contributions goes toward funding the more than 5,600 Southern Baptist missionaries serving in North America. NAMB serves as the endorsing agency for 2,875 Southern Baptist chaplains serving in military, hospital, professional, corporate and volunteer settings.
In addition to its missionary and chaplaincy efforts, NAMB partnered with state and local Southern Baptists to start more than 1,500 new churches in 2008. NAMB also assists Southern Baptists in finding volunteer mission opportunities such as disaster relief, refurbishing sub-standard housing and assisting in church planting and evangelism efforts. NAMB provides national coordination for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts which include more than 90,000 trained disaster relief volunteers and more than 2,000 disaster relief units. In 2008 Southern Baptists served 118,951 volunteer days in disaster relief settings and prepared 7,914,391 meals for those impacted by disasters.
NAMB was founded in 1997 through a restructuring that combined the Brotherhood Commission, the Radio and Television Commission and the Home Mission Board. The agency's first president, Robert E. Reccord, served from June, 1997 to May 2006. The agency's current president, church planting missionary Geoff Hammond, was approved by the agency's board of trustees March 21, 2007. Geoff Hammond was born in Ogbomosho, Nigeria, to missionary parents and raised in Zimbabwe. He was appointed as an International Mission Board missionary to Recife, Brazil in 1990. During those seven years, he served as a professor at the North Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary and assisted in church planting with the Pernambuco Baptist State Convention. Returning to the United States in 1997, Hammond served for two years as director of missions for the Washington Madison Baptist Association in north-west Arkansas before becoming a church planting strategist with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia and minister of Global Missions at FBC, Norfolk, Virginia. In 2002, he became senior associate director of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia.
NAMB is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.
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