2025 Missional Impact Team Report

By Mark Dooley

The Missional Impact Team exists to resource and assist churches in impacting their communities. We focus on five broad areas of doing this:

• Evangelism – As State Director of Evangelism, Mark Dooley leads the effort to encourage evangelistic fruitfulness among our churches. This year, a training event was held in March where 125 people learned how to use The Evangelism Kit, a NAMB resource designed to help create a culture of evangelism in our churches. Also, a little more than 100 pastors and staff attended Evangelism Encouragement Lunches held in each Associational area. Next year, we will host two training events: April 16 at Weems Creek Church, Annapolis, and October 15 at Skycroft. We hope to see many of you there.
• Disaster Relief – Keith Myer leads our efforts to train and equip churches and individuals to serve their communities in times of disaster. BCM/D also deploys teams to other areas to assist those in need during times of disaster. We are developing the basic DR training as an online resource so individuals can be ready to deploy when the call comes. This past year, many in BCMD churches responded to the flooding in Westernport as 150+ homes were served during the recovery efforts there.
• Disability Ministry – Katie Matthews leads the efforts of equipping BCM/D churches in disability ministry. We hosted an exceptional “Everyone Belongs” camp for families affected by disabilities, with approximately 50 people in attendance. Additionally, several churches initiated disability ministries at various levels. Those with disabilities comprise one of the largest mission fields in the world. It’s encouraging to see more of our churches beginning to meet this need. It has also been encouraging to see our Executive Director, Tom Stolle, named as the chairman of an SBC special-needs task force focused on disability.
• Compassion Ministry – One of our newer areas of focus is to support churches that seek to impact their communities through compassion ministry. In August, we welcomed Richard Pope to the Missional Impact team. He will work with our churches, specifically in the area of poverty relief. We partner with Send Relief to offer grants from the SBC Global Hunger Offering, and in 2025, we awarded 21 grants to 16 churches. Next year, we plan to expand our efforts to support churches in other areas of compassion ministry, including pregnancy support and clothing closets.
• Sexual Abuse Prevention – Through the work of our CARE Team, comprised of Keith Myer, Kris Buckman, Mark Dooley, and Tom Stolle, we continue to work with churches to help them be compliant with our BCM/D bylaws which state that “a local church must seek to protect vulnerable adults and children from sexual abuse in concrete ways which reflect the spirit and theology of Scripture.”

Please pray for the work of the Missional Impact Team as we seek to come alongside your churches to help you make an even greater impact in your community.

Mark Dooley serves as the BCM/D Associate Executive Director and Director of Missional Impact