Baptist Missionary Association of America

What Baptist Missionary Association of America does

The Baptist Missionary Association of America (operating as BMA Global) is a private, non-profit Christian missionary organization headquartered in Conway, Arkansas, founded in 1905. It coordinates the international and domestic deployment of American missionaries and "National Changemakers," supports church planting across at least eight countries (France, Cambodia, Philippines, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Cape Verde, Canada, and the United States, with recent expansion into Athens, Georgia), and operates a federated family of 14 ministry subsidiaries covering missionary care, medical missions (Baptist Medical Missions International), chaplaincy, disaster relief, short-term and student missions, Christmas Shoeboxes, Spanish-language publishing (Editorial Bautista), and missions literature. It also runs affiliated media properties — mission:world News and mission:world.TV — and an affiliated Bible college in the Philippines that marked its 50th anniversary in 2026.

The organization is funded almost entirely through donations and contributions from individuals, churches, and ministry partners, processed through a GIVE portal and recurring giving. Its go-to-market is community-led: missionaries are mobilized and deployed via direct church partnerships, supplemented by a GO program offering short-term, medical, student, and career mission trips. There is no disclosed revenue, no external funding rounds, no parent company, and no evidence of public listing, private-equity backing, or institutional investors; ownership and governance are denominational and member-driven. Headcount is reported at approximately 24 employees, with global field operations carried out by missionary personnel rather than centralized staff.

Name

Baptist Missionary Association of America

Legal name

Baptist Missionary Association of America

Website

https://bmamissions.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1905

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Baptist Missionary Association of America (BMA Global) is a Conway, Arkansas-based non-profit missionary organization that deploys missionaries, supports church planting, and runs a federated family of ministries including medical missions, chaplaincy, disaster relief, and publishing across multiple countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Missionary Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAJAE

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

SECONDARYBPAGAJAH

Faith-Based Healthcare Ministries (Hospitals, Clinics, Medical Missions)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

SECONDARYBPAGACAI

Medical Missions & Global Health NGOs

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Health & Medical Nonprofits

Keywords

• Missionary services
• Church planting
• Mission mobilization
• Chaplaincy services
• Disaster relief

Headquarters

HQ city

Conway

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: As a religious non-profit organization, BMA Global generates revenue through donations and contributions from individuals, churches, and ministry partners. The organization operates a GIVE page for processing donations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

BMA Global is a Christian missionary organization that plants churches globally by deploying American missionaries and National Changemakers to international and domestic fields. It delivers a family of ministry programs covering missionary care, medical missions, student and short-term mission trips, chaplaincy, disaster relief, church health resources, and missions literature publishing, supported by the mission:world.TV and mission:world News media platforms.

Product overview

BMA Global is a missionary organization offering a family of interconnected ministry programs centered on church planting and mission work. The portfolio includes missionary care and support services, medical mission trips through Baptist Medical Missions International (BMMI), short-term mission opportunities for students and volunteers, chaplaincy services, disaster relief, and mobilization programs. Media initiatives include mission:world News publication and mission:world.TV video platform. Supporting programs include Healthy Church Solutions, Christmas Shoeboxes gift program, Missions Literature publishing, and Editorial Bautista Spanish-language publishing ministry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• mission:world.TV: Television episodes and video content featuring missionary stories and international ministry updates
• mission:world News
• GO
• GIVE

Products and services

• Healthy Church Solutions A ministry program providing resources and support for church health and growth, targeted at local churches seeking to strengthen their ministry capacity.
• Missionary Care Support services and resources for missionaries including care, training, and spiritual support, targeted at deployed missionaries and their families.
• Baptist Medical Missions International (BMMI) Medical mission trips and healthcare ministry providing medical services in underserved regions through volunteer medical professionals.
• Christmas Shoeboxes Gift program providing shoebox gifts to children during the Christmas season in mission field locations.
• Volunteer Student Missions (VSM) Short-term mission opportunities for students to serve internationally, coordinated through the GO program.
• Short-Term Missions Short-term mission trip programs including training for volunteers, offering structured deployment opportunities for church groups and individuals.
• Mobilization Programs to mobilize and equip individuals for missionary service, providing recruitment and preparation pathways.
• BMA Chaplaincy Chaplaincy services and placement for BMA missionaries in various settings including military, healthcare, and institutional chaplaincy positions.
• BMA Disaster Relief Disaster response and relief services provided by BMA missionaries in affected regions.
• Missions Literature Published materials and resources for missionary training and education.
• Editorial Bautista Spanish-language publishing ministry providing Baptist literature for Spanish-speaking mission fields.
• mission:world News News publication covering BMA Global missionary stories and updates, distributed via newsletter sign-up.
• mission:world.TV Video content platform featuring missionary stories and episodes showcasing BMA Global field activities.
• Career Missions Career missionary program under the GO umbrella providing structured long-term missionary service pathways.
• BMA Bible College in the Philippines Bible college education and pastoral training institution based in the Philippines, training national leaders for church planting and ministry.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pioneers: Evangelical mission organization focused on church planting among least-evangelized people groups. Comparable model of deploying career missionaries with structured support and care infrastructure.
• International Mission Board (IMB): The Southern Baptist Convention's global mission sending agency, deploying thousands of missionaries internationally. Most direct comparable to BMA Global as a Baptist-affiliated denomination-based mission organization with field operations and donor-funded model.
• Wycliffe Global Alliance: Global alliance focused on Bible translation and related ministry, with member organizations sending missionaries to language communities. Comparable in global footprint and donor-funded model.
• SEND International: Evangelical mission agency recruiting and sending career missionaries internationally with a focus on unreached people groups. Overlaps with BMA's church-planting and missionary-care focus.
• North American Mission Board (NAMB): SBC's domestic mission agency covering church planting and chaplaincy in the U.S. and Canada. Directly comparable to BMA's domestic chaplaincy and Athens, GA church-planting work.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM): Global evangelical mission movement operating in 200+ countries with short-term trips, training schools, and career missionary deployment. Directly comparable to BMA's GO program and student mission offerings.
• Samaritan's Purse: Evangelical relief and medical mission organization with international medical teams, disaster response, and Operation Christmas Child gift distribution. Directly comparable to BMA's BMMI medical missions and Christmas Shoeboxes programs.
• TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission): Multi-denominational evangelical mission agency sending career missionaries globally. Comparable in missionary-care, mobilization, and donor-funded deployment model.
• Assemblies of God World Missions: Pentecostal denomination's global mission sending agency with hundreds of missionaries across multiple countries. Comparable in structure, scale, and donor-funded denominational mission model.

Broad incumbents

• Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ): Large evangelical organization with global campus ministry and international mission programs. Larger scale with broader scope, but overlapping in missionary-deployment and donor-funded model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/baptist-missionary-association-of-america

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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