FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST HOME MISSIONS INC

What FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST HOME MISSIONS INC does

Fundamental Baptist Home Missions, Inc. (FBHM) is a private religious nonprofit incorporated in North Carolina in June 1982 by Dr. James Ellis. It operates as a faith-based home mission board whose stated purpose is to establish indigenous local Baptist churches in areas without a gospel witness, strengthen local churches through missionary evangelism, train missionary candidates, preach God's Word in missions conferences and revival meetings, and reach America and the world with the printed Word through a worldwide printing ministry. FBHM serves 148 missionary families across the USA, Africa, the Caribbean Islands, Central America, Europe, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and South America.

The organization's product surface is built around missionary support services, regional field director oversight (Caribbean, Africa, Mexico/Central/South America, Philippines/India), an annual Jubilee conference, and a worldwide printing ministry producing gospel tracts, booklets, prayer cards, door hangers, church stationery, and study courses. Its technology footprint is minimal: a Homestead-hosted website, a YouTube channel called FBHM Stories from Everywhere, and PDF prayer letters — no proprietary software platform, API, or mobile application. Headcount consists of four unpaid volunteer office staff, with operational leadership provided by President and Director Chip Stowe, Secretary/Treasurer Lucille Ellis, and Secretaries Marie Stewart and Angi Stowe.

FBHM's business model is a 100% pass-through donation model. Missionaries raise their own financial support from churches and individuals, and FBHM forwards 100% of missionary support received without retaining any funds for operations. Office staff are unpaid volunteers, and operational costs are met by faith-based donations encouraged by missionaries and directors. There are no fees, no priced services, and no commercial pricing model. The entity is family-led under the stewardship of the founder's widow, daughter, and son-in-law, with no external institutional investors, parent company, or subsidiaries.

Name

FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST HOME MISSIONS INC

Legal name

Fundamental Baptist Home Missions, Inc.

Website

https://fbhm.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fundamental Baptist Home Missions, Inc. is a North Carolina-based nonprofit mission board founded in 1982 that supports 148 missionary families across 9 global regions through a 100% pass-through donation model, regional field directors, an annual Jubilee conference, and a worldwide printing ministry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bessemer City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Missionary Support Donations: FBHM serves as a mission board that receives and distributes missionary support. Missionaries raise their own financial support from churches and individuals. FBHM passes through 100% of missionary support received - they do not retain any funds for operations.
2. Office Operations Funding: The organization operates by faith and trusts God for the operational needs of the office. The three secretaries do not receive salaries. Missionaries and directors raise their own support and encourage churches to provide monthly support for secretaries.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FBHM is a faith-based Independent Baptist mission board that supports 148 missionary families by serving as an administrative and financial intermediary, passing through 100% of donated missionary support. The organization provides missionary candidate training, regional field director oversight across Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, India, the Philippines, Mexico, and Europe, an annual Jubilee missions conference, and operates a worldwide printing ministry producing gospel tracts, booklets, prayer cards, and study courses for global distribution.

Product overview

FBHM is a home mission board organization that connects missionaries with churches to establish indigenous local Baptist churches globally. The organization offers two primary services: a worldwide printing ministry that produces gospel tracts, booklets, prayer cards, and other Christian literature; and a missionary network connecting 148 missionary families across USA, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Europe, India, Mexico, Philippines, and South America. The YouTube channel FBHM Stories from Everywhere provides video content featuring missionary stories. FBHM does not operate a software product or SaaS platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FBHM Stories from Everywhere: YouTube channel featuring stories from FBHM missionaries around the world

Quantifiable outcome

• 148 missionary families supported across 9 countries/regions

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Avant Ministries: A faith-based mission organization focused on church planting and missionary support across multiple countries. Comparable in the core function of placing and supporting missionary families on church-planting fields.
• Pioneers: A faith-based mission-sending organization supporting church-planting teams across multiple countries. Comparable in the function of placing and supporting missionary families across diverse geographies, though interdenominational.
• Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI): A fellowship of independent Baptist churches that coordinates domestic and international missions. Comparable in denominational positioning and missionary support function, though larger and more centralized.
• World Gospel Mission: A faith-based mission-sending agency supporting missionaries in church planting, evangelism, and humanitarian work across multiple regions. Comparable in scale, missionary-family support model, and global footprint.
• Baptist Mid-Missions (BMM): A long-established independent Baptist mission board sending missionaries to church-planting fields worldwide. Closely matches FBHM's Baptist, church-planting, and multi-region model.
• Macedonia World Baptist Missions: An independent Baptist mission board headquartered in the U.S. Southeast, supporting missionaries in church planting internationally. Comparable in theology, scale, and geographic focus (Africa, Latin America, Asia).
• New Tribes Mission: A faith-based mission organization focused on church planting among unreached people groups, with missionaries in dozens of countries. Comparable in operating model (sending and supporting missionary families) and global scope.
• Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE): An independent Baptist mission-sending agency supporting hundreds of missionaries globally. Directly comparable to FBHM in theology, structure, and operational scope (missionary placement, support raising, church planting).

Broad incumbents

• International Mission Board (IMB): The Southern Baptist Convention's global mission-sending agency. Operates in the same overall mission-board space at vastly larger scale; useful as a benchmark for what a mature, institutionally governed mission board looks like compared to FBHM's lean volunteer model.

Regional players

• ABM International (Australian Baptist Missionary): A Baptist mission organization focused on cross-cultural missionary support, similar in denominational foundation but operating primarily from Australia. Comparable in mission-board function while geographically distinct from FBHM's U.S. base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@FBHMStoriesfromEverywhere
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fundamental-baptist-home-missions-inc

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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