About Mark Holmes

Missionary in Nigeria serving with FBMI since 2002. Sent out of Faith Baptist Church of Gulfport, Mississippi.

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Bible Clubs Were a Wonderful Success!

2016-11-02T09:59:17-05:00October 2nd, 2016|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Bible Clubs Were a Wonderful Success! On August 16, the Holmes family departed Nigeria for a five-month furlough. We have averaged being in America for about five months after every two years on the field. This [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Three Church Anniversaries

2016-11-09T09:09:36-06:00August 9th, 2016|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

At the end of May, we were thankful that a group from Centered On Remote Evangelism (C.O.R.E.) included our ministry in their three-country trip. The group consisted of the director, two members from C.O.R.E.’s home church, and a long-time [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Eventful Ministry Period

2017-02-02T14:43:09-06:00May 21st, 2016|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: |

An eventful period in our ministry included the 8th Annual Soul-Winning and Leadership Conference during the last few days of March. We rejoiced in the return of both Dr. Mike Cox of Victory Baptist Missions and Evangelist Don Wattenbarger [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: 9 Conferences in 12 Months!

2017-02-02T14:43:11-06:00March 19th, 2016|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

The first two months of 2016 brought forth another important milestone for our ministry, as Providence Baptist College and Seminary celebrated its second commencement on the last Saturday of January, with fourteen seminarians receiving thei [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Missions Conference and Upcoming Furlough

2016-01-20T16:49:16-06:00January 22nd, 2016|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Evangelist Jim Belisle, a Field Service Coordinator for our mission board who has quickly become a dear friend to our family and work, allowed me to take advantage of his experience in ministry and flexibility of schedule to use him in Nove [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Regional Conferences

2015-11-24T17:30:25-06:00November 25th, 2015|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: |

After eight years of hosting pastors’ conferences in Abuja, we have broken new ground, as Dr. Mike Cox, the founder of our mission board, became our first American preacher to visit twice in the same year. He came in April for the national [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Record-Breaking Youth Camp

2015-10-11T16:13:06-05:00October 13th, 2015|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

As a result of being on furlough last year, we cancelled our 2014 youth camp, and there was concern that it would affect the momentum that had been built over four years of our Student Missions Institute for Training in Evangelism. Well, du [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Grand Opening of Grace and Glory

2017-02-02T14:43:27-06:00August 6th, 2015|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

On the last Sunday of May, almost exactly ten years after our family arrived in Nigeria, Grace and Glory Baptist Church celebrated its Grand Opening service with 80 in attendance. This is the second church in which our family is personally [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Conference and Internships

2017-02-02T14:43:29-06:00June 21st, 2015|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Much of these two months was spent in preparation of our 7th Annual National Soul-Winning and Leadership Conference, which took place in the last week of April. We were privileged to once again host the founder of our mission board, Dr. Mik [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Ordination and Expansion

2015-03-26T18:23:05-05:00March 28th, 2015|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

For the last 2½ years, Adewale (pronounced Ah-deh-wah-leh) Adesina has served at Truth Baptist Church as an intern, gladly getting involved in virtually every aspect of our ministry. He is a graduate of the first independent Baptist Bible c [...]

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