Dr. Mark Holmes Family
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Truth Baptist Church was thrilled to host Evangelist Jim Belisle, a field service coordinator in our mission board on his 4th visit to Nigeria for our 7th Great Commission Meeting in November. An open house for Providence Baptist College an [...]
On the 4th day of October, my family returned to Nigeria to begin our 10th year of service in West Africa. Our furlough consisted of over 60 meetings in a 6-month span of traveling. One of the high points before departing was my thrill of b [...]
When we first got to the mission field, immediately we had a desire to start ministry-training schools in Nigeria for the training of men to go out and start churches, but always an ultimate goal for a missionary is to have ministries that [...]
Paul said in I Corinthians 3:6, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." During this nearly six-month furlough, I have testified in almost 60 meetings about what our family is doing in Nigeria. Lest anyone assume that I [...]
