"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..."
Matthew 28:19
From the beginning, God's plan of salvation has been to reconcile worshipers to Himself through the saving work of Jesus Christ.
We desire to proclaim a clear Gospel as we express Christ-like love to our neighbors and to people in every nation.
We see our mission field in three divisions: Community, Country, and Continents.
We desire to proclaim a clear Gospel as we express Christ-like love to our neighbors and to people in every nation.
We see our mission field in three divisions: Community, Country, and Continents.
Community
Homeless
Our members volunteer multiple times each year to serve meals and the Bread of Life to homeless people through Angelic Ministries in Knoxville.
Special Needs Adults
The Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes provide safe housing and care for special needs adults who cannot live independently. We support the homes with financial assistance and property maintenance.
Crisis Pregnancies
We support Choices Resource Center through fundraising activities and donations to further their mission to provide counseling and services for parents who feel overwhelmed and confused.
Country
Appalachia
Our construction teams have helped Mountain Outreach with community revitalization efforts to repair homes and churches in SE Kentucky and East Tennessee.
Southeast Kentucky
When Southeast Kentucky was ravaged by historic flooding in 2022, our members traveled to Calvary Campus in Letcher to distribute food, do cleanup work, and share Jesus through VBS.
Pacific Northwest
Wildfires destroyed Mt. Horeb Baptist Church of Mill City, Oregon back in 2020. Several churches in East Tennessee sent crews to rebuild their sanctuary. Our members poured the foundation and framed the structure in one week.
Continents
Guatemala
Members restored and stabillized a building for Iglesia Bautista Antioquia (Antioch Baptist Church) in Guatemala City.
Pray for Pastor Essio Ramirez Azurdia and his flock.
Pray for Pastor Essio Ramirez Azurdia and his flock.
Ecuador
In 2025, members of our congregation travel to Cayambe, Ecuador to minister along side Pastor David Meyer in his church plant, Iglesia Biblica Buen Pastor (Church of the Good Shepherd).
Kenya
Our Elders have made many trips to Salama, Kenya to preach and baptize in remote areas and to support Salama Kenya Baptist Ministries. Pray for Pastor Moses Makuthi and his mother Grace Nzioka.
Resident Missionaries
Mike and Rita Sanders
God called Mike and Rita into full-time Gospel Ministry in 2013 while they were living in Overland Park, Kansas and serving with the North American Mission Board.
In June of 2021 the Lord directed them to Powell to become a part of International Awakening Ministries and to help Mike’s mentor, Richard Owen Roberts,
in his final years of ministry.
God has placed in them a burden for spiritually deceived people who are placing their hope in church membership and "being a good person" instead of a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and rebirth from above.
Their ministry consists of evangelizing the lost and edifying the believers. They have worked in several churches in the U.S. and a few overseas.
Mike and Rita have three grown children who are all married and serving the Lord. They have given their parents sixteen grandchildren.
In June of 2021 the Lord directed them to Powell to become a part of International Awakening Ministries and to help Mike’s mentor, Richard Owen Roberts,
in his final years of ministry.
God has placed in them a burden for spiritually deceived people who are placing their hope in church membership and "being a good person" instead of a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and rebirth from above.
Their ministry consists of evangelizing the lost and edifying the believers. They have worked in several churches in the U.S. and a few overseas.
Mike and Rita have three grown children who are all married and serving the Lord. They have given their parents sixteen grandchildren.
