Brown Missionary Baptist Church is an example of local congregation that sees the value of faith-based non-profits in their community. A recent Baptist Press article illustrates Brown’s missional commitment, including leading the way in bringing Mission Increase to Memphis.

MEMPHIS (BP) – Brown Missionary Baptist Church’s $1,000 weekly anonymous gift to area nonprofits has morphed into a partnership to train such groups for maximum impact and engender church-community cooperation. It began in November 2020 with the church anonymously giving $1,000 to every nonprofit honored as a Community Changer in an outreach the church negotiated with local CBS affiliate WREG. Brown Baptist gave more than $100,000 in the outreach before revealing its identity as the donor in November 2022, WREG reported.

“We didn’t want it to be about Brown, but just all of these other great organizations in the community,” Senior Pastor Bartholomew Orr told Baptist Press.

“We’re working now to actually bring Mission Increase to the area,” Orr said in January. “We’re doing this now so that all of the nonprofits in our area can benefit from a company that focuses in on how do you make nonprofits more evangelistic, as well as more equipped in building their donor base, and so forth.”

Scott Harris, a Brentwood (Tenn.) Baptist Church member and Mission Increase’s vice president of church and global engagement, is working with Orr to establish a Mission Increase chapter in west Tennessee. Mission Increase will station a coach in Memphis, Harris said, to train nonprofits in subjects including board governance, strategic planning and fundraising.

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How does your church partner with and bless non-profits in your community and world? Contact me if you would like to learn more about Mission Increase and how we bring churches and non-profits together – just like in Memphis!