User:Wpittman
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Wesley Pittman, a missionary going to Australia, is planning to be a church planter in Melbourne, Australia. His mission board is Baptist International Missions, Inc located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. BIMI has over 1000 missionaries winning souls, disciplining believers, and planting Baptist churches around the world.
He was born May 22, 1978 in Spartanburg, SC. At four months old, He was adopted by his parents, Roland and Jeanne Pittman. He grew up in a Christian home and attended a Christian school. He grew up in church. Most of his life, his family attended Tabernacle Baptist church in Wilson, North Carolina.
He participated in the church ministries including Sunday School, AWANA, and youth group at Tabernacle Baptist Church. Near his 6th birthday, he heard a clear presentation of the gospel preached by Dr. Randy Carroll at Tabernacle Baptist Church. He states the following testimony:
"That afternoon, I asked my dad more about how to be saved. I was led to Christ by my father that afternoon."
In June, he was baptized at Tabernacle Baptist Church. At eleven years old, he surrendered his life for full-time Christian service and was called to the ministry during a revival meeting at Trinity Baptist Church in Wilson, NC.
He attended 5 year old kindergarten through the twelfth grade at Wilson Christian Academy in Wilson, NC where his father was the administrator. In high school, he participated in fine arts including choir, music and dramatic productions.
While in junior high, he began participating in a nursing home ministry with the school’s administrative assistant, Mr. Roland Miller. After Mr. Miller moved to another state, Wesley took over the ministry and maintained it until he graduated from high school.
He graduated from high school at Wilson Christian Academy in 1997. After graduation from high school, he enrolled at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.
As a college student, he was continually involved in extension ministries including nursing homes and street evangelism. he was the leader of several extension groups for nursing home ministries in the Greenville, South Carolina area. Through these groups, they saw several elderly people come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As part of his missionary training, he did a mission internship near Melbourne, Australia in 2002. His internship was with Missionary Hub Corbet at Casey Baptist Church. He was invovlved in Sunday School teaching, preaching, and Bible Study ministries. Also, he worked in church music by organizing a choir and singing special music.
During his internship, he worked in the Word of Life Camp near Sydney, Australia. Fifteen boys accepted Christ during the camp ministry.
He also worked at Crystal Creek Christian Camp about an hour’s drive from Melbourne.
He was also involved in mailbox tract distribution ministry, which is legal in Australia. In addition, he distributed tracts on the streets and in parks as well as did personal soulwinning and evangelism in public places.
He graduated from Bob Jones University in 2002 with a degree in Christian Missions.
He is an active member of Grace Baptist Church in Landrum, SC where Stephen Wise is the pastor. Grace Baptist Church is his sending church. While doing deputation, he is very actively involved in the ministry of the local church.
His ministry includes singing in the church choir and doing special music for the services.
He taught Biblical counseling and keyboarding at Grace Christian School which is a ministry of Grace Baptist Church. Also, he was the custodian work for the church and school.
His ministry will be in Melbourne, Australia. This is the place of future ministry where he will be working to help plant a local Baptist church and Christian school.
His desire for ministry is to work at a church and with a veteran missionary under BIMI in the Melbourne area for 2 years and then go out and plant a Baptist church.
His goals for the ministry in Australia are: Evangelism and Discipleship Establishing Local Churches Establishing Christian Schools Training Australian Pastors Teaching in Public Schools and Camps
He married Erin Elizabeth Gimlich on July 7, 2007 at Maranatha Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant, MI. They are currently at 75% of there support.
Doctrine of Faith - What I Believe?
I BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He was put to death on the cross for our sins, and that he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and that He rose again the third day triumphantly and that He was seen by many people before going back to Heaven.
I BELIEVE in the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION as the only Bible and that it is the best Bible for the English speaking peoples of this world.
I BELIEVE in the fundamentals of the faith that was once and for delievered to us through the inerrent, infallible, authoritative Word of God.
I BELIEVE that as a Baptist preacher/missionary that one should establish a local, independent, pre-tribulational, pre-millenium BAPTIST church for edification of Christ, the edification of believers, and the bringing together a body of believers for the furtherance of the kingdom of God.
I BELIEVE in the traditional hymns of the faith and not the so called contemporary christian music of our day.
I BELIEVE that as an Independent Baptist, that one should be separate from the New Evangelicals, Modernists, Charismatics, liberals, etc.
