Missions  Almost from its inception the Alliance has been privileged to have partners at home and abroad who enrich our sense of Christian vocation and with whom we share mutually entrusted resources. One specific means at our disposal is the annual Bridges of Hope Mission Offering, to which individual members of the Alliance and affiliated congregations are invited to give.
From year to year some 30 recipients of the offering are chosen by the Missions Committee, a unit charged with evaluating applications and recommending allocations. In the most recent cycle, for example, the Alliance mission offering provided grants to ministry partners in the United States engaged in after-school tutoring programs in Chicago, Indianapolis and New York City; a violence prevention and intervention program for children, adolescents and their families in Little Rock, AR; recovery programs for homeless and addicted men in Atlanta and Raleigh, NC; a Baptist hunger advocacy group based in Waco, TX; a ministry for the families of prisoners in Tennessee; the Sabbath House of Bryson City, NC, where clergy and laypeople alike are invited to find refuge and renewal in the rigors of fulfilling their respective callings; and the Advent Spirituality Center of Mars Hill, NC, through whose retreats Christian disciples find nurture for the journey.
Internationally, our partners include the Alliance of Baptists of Brazil, the Fraternity of Baptist Churches of Cuba, the Evangelical Baptist Church of the Republic of Georgia, interfaith ministry in Morocco, the Baptist Convention and Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe, the Baptist Seminary of Mexico; and others.
Together these domestic and international partners help the Alliance fulfill one of our principal strategic directions, “The Alliance will become ever more a missional people with partnership as our working model.”
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