Sinquefield
Our beautiful state of Tennessee has more than 3,000 partner churches spreading across the farmlands, metropolitan areas, and small communities from Memphis to Mountain City. In our attempt to get as close to our churches and associations as possible, we have six regional Harvest Field Team Leaders and one ethnic/language Harvest Field Team Leader who relate directly to the churches, pastors, and associational missionaries in their region.
I’m a “player coach” in that I am the Harvest Field 1 Team Leader (15 counties in West Tennessee) and I have the privilege of serving in a supervisory role with the other Harvest Field Team Leaders. The men that the Lord has assembled to serve in these various regions are amazing.
Each of these godly brothers brings years of ministry experience and valuable relationship skills t o the position. They are widely known and well respected in their areas of service. These guys are truly servants to our churches and pastors across the state and they desire to be available to all the church and associational leaders.
It has been an honor to serve in my Harvest Field 1 role for the past three years with the TBMB. I absolutely love serving our churches as we strive to advance God’s Kingdom. I resonate with our TBMB mission, vision, values, and priorities. My heart beats fast as I think about the exciting days ahead with our new Acts 2:17 initiative.
In each of our Harvest Fields, there are some common roles and responsibilities that our leaders employ. We are connectors, coaches, consultants, and catalysts.
Our Harvest Field leaders can be called upon by our churches and associations to assist with equipping leaders, finding solutions to problems, encouraging those who are discouraged, filling a pulpit, teaching a class, and sometimes just sitting and listening. Our Harvest Field guys are not always the expert for everything, but we usually know someone who can help, and we make those connections.
Each of our six regional Harvest Field Team Leaders live in their field as a dispersed TBMB staff member. They know the language, culture, and nuance of the churches and people in their particular area. In every case, these guys love the churches, pastors, and leaders in their harvest field. They pray for them, promote their ministries, and are available to help as needed. This is a ministry much like Barnabas operated in the New Testament. We strive to be encouragers, equippers, and enlisters of others.
Currently, our Harvest Field leaders are hosting and sharing Acts 2:17 information meetings across the state related to collaboration.
We are populating the new focus and vision with a host of collaborative catalysts who are passionate about particular areas of ministry.
This will become a collaborative network of Tennessee Baptists who desire to reach our state with the Gospel and to see more healthy churches, pastors, leaders, and more evangelistic disciples added to our collective work. This is our current assignment, and it will fuel our work alongside our churches for years to come. The task ahead is significant, but the Lord is sufficient. He is able and we are willing.
It is truly a great day to be a Tennessee Baptist. Every church, every pastor, and every leader is involved in the greatest work in the world. We want to give our best effort and energy to this work – until every Tennessean hears the gospel! B&R
