Baptist Pioneer
Mission
Application
The information herein constitutes a permanent record, and we urge you to complete the answers fully and carefully.
Thank you.
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Name: ______
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Date of Birth: Day ____ Month _____ Year ______
Date Married: Day ____ Month _____ Year ______
Married women-give maiden name:______
Passport Number:______Date Issued: ______Place Issued: ______
Social Security Number: ______Nationality: ______Citizenship: ______
Ordained? _____ When? ______By Whom?______
Present Address: ______
______Phone: (___)______
Permanent Address:______
______Phone: (___)______
Give names of children, ages, and dates of birth:______
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Do you have any other dependents? ______
Give details regarding your educational qualifications:
High School: ______College:______
Bible School: ______Seminary:______
Pastorate or other full time service: ______
Church training: ______
Additional training (separate page if necessary): ______
Other experience in the Lord’s work: ______
Relate briefly your experience of conversion on a separate page.
On a separate page, please explain what convinces you that God is leading / calling you to the mission field.
Are you in full agreement with the Articles in our Statement of Faith? If not please explain the points of disagreement or doubt on a separate page.
Do you know at this time to which field God is leading you? _____ Field: ______
Should the door to this field be “closed” for any reason, are you willing to look to the Lord to direct you elsewhere? ______Explain: ______
Have you ever applied to or served under another mission? ______If so, give name and address of the mission and explain on a separate page.
Why are you considering Baptist Pioneer Mission? ______
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Have you discussed God’s leading you to the mission field with your Pastor? ______
Give Pastor’s name and address: ______
Much emphasis and attention will be given to your pastor’s recommendation or non-recommendation so we request that such a letter accompany this application.
Is your church willing to commission you to do missionary work with the Baptist Pioneer Mission and sign the Certificate of Commissioning which states: “By so doing, we designate and set apart our fellow servant to minister in this capacity in full accordance with the faith, tenets, and practices of the Baptist Pioneer Mission’s Statement of Faith and Principles of Operation, recognizing our own responsibility to deal with them should they cease holding and practicing these beliefs. We will not sin against them by ceasing to pray for them.”?
Give name and address of the church of which you are a member: ______
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Do you consistently witness to the lost? ______Have daily devotions? ______
Family Altar? ______
What type of instrument do you play? ______Sing? ______
Other talents: ______
Do you understand that you must trust the Lord, through your own church and other channels as He supplies, for all your financial needs, equipment, passage, and support? Are you fully in accord with this principle? ______
Effective service on the mission field involves the complete putting aside of personal plans and ambitions. It requires a life that is absolutely yielded to God and to His will; it may mean danger, suffering, sorrow, sickness, lonesomeness, and exposure to testing. It demands the ability to cooperate sympathetically with others, and above all, it is based on a real energizing love for the souls of those who are lost.
Give names and addresses of at least six references:
Pastor (other than yours) with whom you are acquainted:
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A Friend:
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Official from your home church:
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Secular employer:
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Two other references not related to you:
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In serving Him with Baptist Pioneer Mission, I agree not to approve of, or co-operate with, or support any activity sponsored by know Liberal theologians, Neo-Orthodox, New-Evangelicals, Sense Oriented Charismatic Movement, the World Council of Churches, or Ecumenicalists. I accept the Statement of Faith and Principles of Operation and if the time should ever come that I no longer hold to them, I agree to notify the Mission. I have read the list of requirements entitled: “Musts” and I am in full agreement with them.
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Missionary’s SignatureDate Signed
______was received as a Missionary by
(Name)
Baptist Pioneer Mission, ______
(Date)
Should he or she stop holding and or practicing this Statement of Faith and or these Principles of Operation, we will, as soon as we have proof of this action, dismiss the missionary and notify his or her supporters.