About Baptist International Outreach

BIO relieves local church missionaries and their sending churches of many logistical tasks so they can focus on the work God has called them to do:

• Processing missionary funds
• Health and life insurance
• Retirement plans
• Obtaining visas and establishing NGOs and other legal entities
• Income tax and Social Security savings with CPA assistance
• Ministry counseling, encouragement, and accountability

BIO holds to the authority of the Masoretic and Received Text as the Word of God and therefore uses the KJV exclusively for English Speaking Peoples.

BIO maintains that believers should practice Biblical modesty. Concerning sincere differences in non-essential issues, BIO defaults to the local church while maintaining a spirit of charity and cooperation.

BIO believes music is an important factor in both public and private worship, and should encourage spiritual worship, edify believers, exalt the Lord Jesus Christ, and in no way reflect worldliness. BIO understands music is expressed uniquely in every culture and defaults to the local church in regard to style and expression, maintaining a spirit of charity and cooperation.

BIO's desire is to please and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by assisting local church missionaries and foreign nationals in planting indigenous local churches — self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating.

The means by which ministry is to be carried out is through the living organism called the local church. BIO believes that God has ordained local churches to plant local churches. Therefore BIO endeavors to serve the local church and local church missionaries and will in no way undermine or circumvent the local church.

As an Independent Fundamental Baptist ministry, BIO rejects ecumenicalism, neo-evangelicalism, the charismatic movement, and the seeker-friendly philosophy.

BIO missionaries practice old-fashioned soul winning and preaching. However, in limited-access countries where it is illegal to openly propagate the Gospel, symbiotic methods that do not violate Biblical principles are employed — Deaf education, Business, ESL, TEFL, and more.

BIO requires proper Biblical accountability for all American missionaries and foreign nationals. Worldwide Missions is greatly enhanced by America's men and money; nevertheless, without Godly national leadership in world missions and church planting there is little hope for long-term success in any country.

BIO has over 100 American missionaries plus over 50 national missionaries serving in more than 20 countries around the world:

• Belarus • Belize • Botswana • Brazil • Cambodia
• Canada • China • Costa Rica • Ethiopia • India
• Indonesia • Kenya • Mexico • Nigeria • Peru
• Russia • South Africa • The Philippines • United States
• Venezuela • Vietnam • Zambia