October-November 2024Where Do We Go From Here? Online EditionDownload PDFScreen Edition ------------------ History ResourcesAboutArchives | Where Do We Go From Here?By David Crowe For 86 years, the Home Missions Department has served our denomination by planting churches in North America, endorsing military chaplains, providing disaster response, promoting church growth and evangelism, preaching revivals, teaching seminars, planting cross-cultural churches, encouraging pastors and missionaries, and teaching about our wonderful heritage as Free Will Baptists.
For 28 of those 86 years, I’ve worked on the staff of Home Missions. I came to the department 28 years ago to help then-director Trymon Messer accomplish what God had called him to do through the department. I worked six years as the director of missionary assistance and visited 20 to 25 mission works each year, encouraging, educating, and equipping church planters. When Richard Atwood was hired, he filled my position, and I became the director of church growth. This role gave me the opportunity to visit 45 to 50 established churches each year for revivals, fellowship, encouragement, and public relations.
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Trymon was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, as one of ten children. A few years ago, I preached a revival in Pontotoc, and while there, I called Trymon and told him I had checked every paved road, dirt road, and pig trail in and out of Pontotoc, Mississippi, and something terrible had happened. When he asked what had happened, I told him someone had stolen every sign that said, “Birthplace of Trymon Messer.” All I heard on the other end was a click. He didn’t think my joke 
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