It is time once again to honor an outstanding missions volunteer in Alabama.
The office of global partnership and volunteers in missions of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) is accepting nominations through Aug. 30 for the 2002 Outstanding Alabama Missions Volunteer.
The chosen volunteer will be recognized during the November 2002 state convention annual meeting, which will be in Birmingham. All nominees will be recognized during the Missions Volunteer Banquet.
“This is an effort to recognize an outstanding missions volunteer out of the whole group of volunteers,” said Reggie Quimby, director of the SBOM’s global partnerships and volunteers in missions office. “There are a lot of outstanding volunteers, but we’re trying to find that person who exemplifies volunteerism in Alabama.”
In order to do that, Quimby said some of the guidelines for this year have changed. In listing the missions involvement of the nominees, Quimby said, “We are looking for someone who exemplifies the Acts 1:8 strategies for missions involvement.”
“Jerusalem” symbolizes missions at the local and associational level, “Judea” at the state level, “Samaria” at the national level and the “uttermost” is international missions. Quimby recommends that nominees be involved in at least three of the four areas. Dates and locations of their involvement within the past five years must be included.
Additionally, testimonies or letters of recommendation from associational directors of missions and/or career missionaries will help strengthen the recommendation. “We need to be able to tell if [their involvement] was once-in-awhile or a lifetime of missions,” Quimby said. “This is not, ‘The person with the most letters wins.’”
Nominations are restricted to volunteers, therefore career missionaries and employees of the SBOM cannot be nominated.
Nominations must be received no later than Aug. 30. For more information, contact Virginia Gardner or Quimby at 1-800-264-1225, Ext. 238 or by e-mail at vgardner@alsbom.org.
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