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The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is the domestic missions agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. It exists to assist Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission in the United States, Canada, and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners. Funding for this agency comes from the gifts of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. Annie Armstrong (1850–1938) was an advocate for missions at home and abroad. 100 percent of AAEO contributions goes toward funding the more than 5,000 Southern Baptist missionaries serving in North America. NAMB serves as the endorsing agency for more than 3,000 Southern Baptist chaplains serving in military, hospital, professional, corporate and volunteer settings.
NAMB was founded in 1997 through a restructuring that combined the Brotherhood Commission, the Radio and Television Commission and the Home Mission Board. The agency's first president, Robert E. Reccord, served from June 1997 to May 2006. The agency's second president was Geoff Hammond, who served from May 2007 to August 2009. NAMB's current president is Kevin Ezell, who began serving in September 2010. Prior to coming to NAMB, Ezell served as senior pastor of Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. NAMB is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.
In addition to its missionary and chaplaincy efforts, NAMB partners with state and local Southern Baptists to start more than 1,000 new churches each year. NAMB also assists Southern Baptists in connecting with volunteer mission opportunities such as disaster relief, refurbishing sub-standard housing, and assisting in church planting and evangelism efforts.
NAMB provides national coordination for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts which include more than 70,000 trained disaster relief volunteers and more than 2,000 disaster relief units. Through cooperative efforts, Disaster relief volunteers, in co-operation with state and local relief agencies, are ready to serve in Disaster relief efforts when the needs arise. They are partnered with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross to help provide feeding stations as well as work crews to help clear disaster areas of debris and make temporary repairs to homes and service agencies. Many times they are first responders. In 2010, Southern Baptists served 32,556 volunteer days in disaster relief settings and prepared 272,0963 meals for those impacted by disasters. See the web link below for the current response needs that are being met in Haiti and New England from the recent earth Quakes and flooding.