Assisting
We help pastors plan missions conferences and emphasis days, coordinate missions trips, and manage the financial and legal needs of their missionaries.
A Servant to the Local Church
Serving local churches and missionaries since 1985
Fundamental Baptist World-Wide Mission helps pastors and churches send their missionaries to the field — handling the finances, paperwork and training so the work of the Great Commission can go forward.
41Years serving the local church
21Missionary families
17+Fields of service
0%Deducted from missionary support
What we do
Our job is to serve
FBWWM becomes an extension of the sending church and its pastor. The missionary remains under the authority of the church that sent him — we come alongside to help.
Equipping
Through the Annual Institute of Missions we train missionaries and church leaders, and provide deputation help — presentations, scheduling and promotional materials.
Supporting
We assist missionaries on the field with visas, shipping and travel, offer Biblical and practical resources, and help with church planting and disciple-making at home and abroad.
Our philosophy
A Biblical pattern for modern-day missions
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The Message
Jesus died for the world.
John 3:162
The Messenger
The church sends the missionary.
Acts 13:1–53
The Method
Teaching doctrine and training nationals.
II Timothy 2:24
The Management
Providing accountability and counsel.
II Corinthians 8:18–22
Who we are
A local church ministry, not a board over the church
FBWWM was founded in 1985 by Dr. Ernest Gambrell on the conviction that God gave the Great Commission to the local church. We operate under the authority of East Side Baptist Church in Bartlett, TN, and every missionary serving through FBWWM remains under the leadership of his own sending pastor and church.
- No fees and no percentage taken from missionary support
- Missionaries follow the leading of the Holy Spirit on their field
- Over 100 years of combined field and ministry experience in the Home Office
Assisting churches and missionaries in reaching
“A great multitude… of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues…”
REVELATION 7:9
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Our missionary families
Serving across 17 fields — from Thailand and Kenya to Argentina, Poland and Hispanic communities here at home.
June
7–11
2027
Annual Institute of Missions
30+ hours of Biblical and practical training for prospective, new and veteran missionaries.
AIM details & registration
Training
Prepared for the field
AIM gives candidates a thorough grounding in deputation, field preparation, language and culture, church planting, finances and relationships — with preaching, testimonies and fellowship every evening. Candidates also meet the Board of Directors during the week.
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Has God called you to the field?
If your independent Baptist church is sending you, we would count it a privilege to serve you.