Mission Service Corps honors couple at annual breakfast

AMARILLO?Isaiah’s willing response to God in Isaiah 6:8?”Here am I, Lord. Send me”?epitomizes the SBTC’s Mission Service Corps, convention Executive Director Jim Richards told those at the Mission Service Corps (MSC) Breakfast Oct. 25.

The breakfast, held annually during the SBTC meeting, honors those commissioned to the MSC through Southern Baptist’s North American Mission Board and the SBTC. MSC missionaries are volunteers who serve in varied ministries in North America.

Richards said MSC missionaries have responded to the question, ‘Whom shall I send?’ as Isaiah did, submitting to God’s will and answering his call to go and proclaim salvation.

Richards related how he discerned a clear call to ministry as a 17-year-old after a day of determined prayer and meditation, yet God eventually moved him from youth evangelism to pastoring, and then to associational and state convention leadership.

He told the MSC missionaries: “God may change the method of ministry, but he never changes and his call never changes.”

Richards said it is the obedience to God’s call by MSC missionaries that makes them fruitful in reaching people with the gospel.

During the breakfast, Richards presented the SBTC Mission Service Corps Missionaries of the Year Award to Bill and Winona Mays, who serve in Gilmer, helping churches with wide-ranging needs, from database management to ministry counsel.