We’re excited to announce that the Akers Family from Heritage Baptist Church will be heading to Montreal, Canada, to help plant churches and share the Gospel in one of North America’s most unreached cities.
After five years of faithful service in Lexington, Kentucky, God has called this family to a new chapter, partnering with Baptist Faith Missions to reach people in a place where less than 0.7% of the population claims to be Christian. Please pray for this family as they prepare to go and for God to use them for His glory.
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.'” -Matthew 9:37-38
Pastor David Pitman, President of BFM, announcing our new missionaries!Pastor Mark Pyles, Director of BFM and conference host, praying for our new missionaries!Pastor David Pitman, President of BFM, announcing our new missionaries!
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[VIDEO]: BFM President Pastor David Pitman announcing The Akers Family as the newest BFM missionaries.
[VIDEO]: Pastor Daniel Akers shares his background and about the field where they will be serving in Montreal.
[VIDEO]: Pastor Daniel Akers preaching at the BFM Spring Conference at Grace Baptist Church in Fairborn, Ohio from Acts 1:6-8 in March 2026.
We are fervently beseeching God to call and raise up A New Generation of Missionaries from our churches. We are appealing to all our partnering churches to join with us in this ministry of supplication. We have prepared this written appeal to express our “heart’s desire and prayer to God.”
However, at the same time, we also recognize that we cannot commit to and assume administering financial support funds for additional missionaries under the current support plan we have implemented since our inception in 1942 – that is, disbursing all our financial commitments to our missionaries from our General Fund contributions. We are currently maxed out with our levels of monthly General Fund ‘in-come’ and our committed support disbursements, or ‘out-go.’
Therefore, we have adopted a new, more mutually-shared, support plan for “A New Generation of Missionaries” the Lord will allow us to partner with going forward. We are calling it our “Missionary Support Partnership” plan. Read here for a fuller, more detailed explanation of why this plan is needed and how it will work: “Missionary Support Partnership – Feasibility and Viability”. And here is a table itemizing how the support responsibilities will be more mutually-shared among the partners in this endeavor: “Missionary Support Partnership – Document of Understanding.” Please read these papers and pray with us that God will multiply and increase our effectiveness and impact among the nations of the world for the Glory of Jesus Christ!
