Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International/ BMDMI

Summary

Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International (“BMDMI”) exists to carry the message of salvation through the free grace of Jesus Christ, establish indigenous churches, disciple believers and provide theological preparation for Christian leaders in Honduras and Nicaragua. BMDMI also seeks to provide a channel through which to place fulltime missionaries and affiliates on the foreign field, as well as to meet the needs of impoverished people on the foreign field through medical-dental volunteer mission teams, children's home, Christian schools, and benevolence programs.

BMDMI and all of its missionaries are solely supported by the contributions of interested individuals and churches and is not under the auspices of any other organization or institution.

BMDMI is a nonprofit organization and contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. In addition, it is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)

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Purpose [ Back to top ]

Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International (“BMDMI”) exists to carry the message of salvation through the free grace of Jesus Christ, establish indigenous churches, disciple believers and provide theological preparation for Christian leaders in Honduras and Nicaragua. BMDMI also seeks to provide a channel through which to place fulltime missionaries and affiliates on the foreign field, as well as to meet the needs of impoverished people on the foreign field through medical-dental volunteer mission teams, children's home, Christian schools, and benevolence programs.

BMDMI and all of its missionaries are solely supported by the contributions of interested individuals and churches and is not under the auspices of any other organization or institution.

BMDMI is a nonprofit organization and contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. In addition, it is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)

Mission Statement [ Back to top ]

BMDMI communicates its mission as the following:

Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International exists under the Lordship of Jesus Christ to evangelize the lost, disciple the saved, and minister to the needs of the poor.

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Statement of Faith [ Back to top ]

BMDMI communicates its Doctrinal Statement as the following:

The Inspiration of the Bible
We believe the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God. (Jer. 30:2, II Timothy 3:16, II Peter 1:20,21)

The Person of God
We believe God is supreme in His person, eternal in His being, absolute in His attributes, glorious in His perfection. We believe in the Trinity. (Gen. 1:1, Isa. 6:1, Deut. 6:4, Matt. 6:9)

The Person of Jesus Christ
We believe in the virgin birth of Christ, His deity and sinless life, His vicarious death, His bodily resurrection, and in His personal pre-millennial return. (Matt. 1:18,20, II Cor. 5:21, I Cor. 15:3-4)

The Person of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Godhead. We believe that he executes the plan of God for our conviction and salvation. From the time of conversion, the Holy Spirit resides in the body of the believer and empowers him/her for God's service. (Col. 2:9, Matt. 10:16, John 14:16)

The Fall of Man
We believe that man was created in the image of God and by choice man fell into sin and death. Hence, every person is sinful and under condemnation to eternal judgment. (Gen. 2:16, Gen. 3:1, 7, Rom. 5:6, 11)

The Salvation of Sinners
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace, and that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. (Eph. 2:8 & 9, John 3:16, John 5:24, John 3:36)

The Freeness of Salvation
We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free by the Gospel to all who repent of their sins and accept Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the Gospel. (Rom. 3:24, Eph. 2:8-10, Titus 3:5)

The Security of the Believer
We believe that those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior are eternally secure. Our security rests on the finished work of Jesus Christ. As a result, we have assurance. (II Tim. 1:12, Rom. 8:35 & 39)

The Doctrine of the Church
We believe that the visible church is a congregation of baptized believers, practicing New Testament principles, believing its doctrine, observing it's ordinances, and exercising its autonomy. (Matt. 16:18, Eph. 3:10 & 11, Cor. 3:11)

The Doctrine of Heaven and Hell
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the saved in heaven and the eternal punishment of the lost in Hell. (I Thes. 4:13, John 14:1 &6, Matt. 25:31 & 46, Rev. 20:10 &15)

History [ Back to top ]

BMDMI communicates its history as the following:

In 1974, Charlie and Carolyn Herrington founded Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Lord blessed their early ministry efforts in church planting, however, their hearts were constantly broken as they saw the poor suffering from lack of medical and dental care. They once discovered a woman passing through the last stages of cancer without even an aspirin to ease the pain. Countless other times, they met people with teeth rotted to the gum line. Seeing people suffer led them to pray about what could be done to help them.

The Lord gave the Herringtons a vision of Christian volunteers from the United States traveling to Honduras to serve in remote, poor villages. These teams of medical and dental volunteers drew people in need of free treatment and would also give the team a chance to share the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ with them.

The Mission's first team consisted of seven people. But now an average of 50 teams travel every year with each team consisting of an average of 35 to 60 volunteers. These teams work through the BMDMI churches so the communities can see the church's concern for its neighbors. Charlie and Carolyn promised the Lord that the physical care the Mission offered would never come before the spiritual care, and the Lord has blessed the ministry in a great way for keeping this promise.

On April 29, 1986 Charlie Herrington passed away in Honduras. The Hondurans mourned the loss of a spiritual father and BMDMI mourned the loss of a dedicated, dynamic leader. However, BMDMI belongs to the Lord, so the work continues.

In the last two decades, BMDMI has expanded its ministry. Short-Term mission teams now travel to Nicaragua offering medical-dental care, planting local churches, and preparing Christian leaders. BMDMI has also opened Christian schools, children's homes, permanent medical-dental clinics, and vocational training centers. To oversee the work of these ministries, BMDMI commissions and send out full-time faith missionaries.

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MinistryWatch.com 5 Star Financial Efficiency Ratings [ Back to top ]

Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Foreign Missions Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		25 of 353	3 of 54
Fund Acquisition Decision		19 of 353	3 of 54
Resource Allocation Decision		35 of 353	1 of 54
Asset Utilization Decision		109 of 353	23 of 54