IFBMT

IFBMT Independent Fundamental Baptist Missionary Trails. To help like faith missionaries with an easy and centralized way to manage their deputation trail.

ifbmt stands for Independent Fundamental Baptist Missionary Trails. This project was envisioned by my friends while on deputation throughout the states. PURPOSE
To help like faith missionaries with an easy and centralized way to manage their deputation trail. This is based on the Biblical principle of stewardship which can be found in John 16:1-13. Jesus commended the unjust steward because he had

done wisely. Keeping accurate records that can be passed down to our children's children (Pro. 13:22) will honour the Lord. Being faithful is more than just being at the right place at the right time. Faithfulness is also having the knowledge and using that knowledge is wisdom. Decisions of missionaries should be based upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the facts that God has given us. The first fact is the King James Bible. God has already told us how to build our ministries and how to have the right kind of relationship with Him. Management decisions should be based upon knowledge. We are told in Psalms 78 that we should know the history of great things God has done, so that we will not forget about the works of God and keep his commandments. In Proverbs 15:28 we are told that the heart of the righteous studieth to answer and then in Colossians 4:6 we are told that our speech should always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that we may know how to answer every man. By using this application, missionaries will have knowledge with which to make accurate decisions, accurate records to testify to the glory of God, and wisdom to give quick and honest answers to every man. BENEFITS
Instant access to contact and location information for over 10,000 churches across the world
See you deputation trail calendar of upcoming meetings displayed geographically on a map with dates displayed
Email and call churches and pastors directly from the app
Save response and add notes for follow-up as either private notes or public notes to share with all other users
Track support level needed, projected, promised, and received
Add personal contacts that can be saved privately and shared with others globally

The email that began it all.
04/01/2026

The email that began it all.

12/19/2025

This ministry exists to serve missionaries, not to sell them tools.

What began as a church directory is becoming a mission-focused ministry built around the real work missionaries do. Missionaries do not just need data. They need support, continuity, and systems that understand deputation, partnerships, movement, and long-term faithfulness.

This ministry is shifting from providing isolated features to serving missionaries holistically. The goal is not another platform, but practical help that reduces friction, preserves relationships, and strengthens the work God has called them to do.

Tools are still part of the ministry, but they are not the mission. Missionaries are.

Let's help each other reach the world for the rest of our lives!As many know, we do not offer the lifetime license very ...
02/11/2025

Let's help each other reach the world for the rest of our lives!

As many know, we do not offer the lifetime license very often because financially it does not support the longevity of the service. If we were solely a business, it does not make sense to offer someone a lifetime of service that you only get paid ~20 months to support. And on top of that the price if flexible up to 80% off if you so choose! That is just absurd, basically giving away our services... for the rest of your life!!!

https://www.ifbmt.info/product/lifetime-license/

But here it is our church's Missions Conference and I am asking myself, what $$$ do I have to give for the cost of our conference that is not already spent. And after talking with my wife and discussing it with my pastor, why not offer some lifetime licenses for ifbmt to benefit both missions around the world and missions at our church too.

So if you have been waiting for this opportunity, here it is! I'm not going to email blast this out as last time that created too much confusion. So please share with your friends and ministry partners.

If anyone is seeing IFBMT for the first time... We offer a web based application that helps like faith missionaries (and evangelists, church planters, and other ministry partners) with an easy and centralized way to manage your deputation trail (and many other ministry needs) with Biblical foundations. Think of us like your living, breathing address book, calendar, to-do list, and donor management solution. We offer security and collaboration to both keep your private data safe, but allowing you to share public information as your research and contact churches and pastors.

10/29/2024

I would like to challenge three different groups. First of all, the senders, then the pray-ers, and last but not least, the go-ers. All three are necessary.

Someone must send; money is necessary. There are those who will have to hold the ropes at home. And if you, my friend, cannot go, then perhaps God wants you to be a sender and to see that another goes in your place. Your part is to earn money and make it possible for someone else to go. And remember, you will share equally in the reward.

Then there are the pray-ers. It may be that you cannot earn money and that you only have sufficient for your own needs. You may never be able to send another; but you can be a pay-er. You can spend a little time in Africa, and India, and China, each day. You can get a list of missionaries and pray for them. That may be your responsibility, and if it is, woe betide you if you shirk it. You, too, may win a reward by faithfully praying for those who have gone; thus you can have a share in their work.

Then, of course, there are the go-ers, and if you are healthy and strong, if you have or can get the necessary training, and if you are prepared, you can go. The urge will come upon you as you pray about your life's work and you will soon know if God is calling. I challenge you to the greatest work in the world. I appeal to you to go if you can. There is nothing like it. Why, the missionaries are God's aristocrats. They are the aristocracy of the church. You will be associating with the finest people on earth.

How will you know God's will? Let me tell you. Start now praying about your life's work. Pray every day. Set aside time for prayer and cry out, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" Then, as you pray, read missionary biography–Brainerd, Singh, Livingstone, Carey, Moffat, MacKay, Judson, Gilmour, Paton, Slessor, Chalmers, Morrison, Duff, Martyn, Williams, Taylor, Geddie, and read two or three chapters each day. That you will put you into the atmosphere of missions. Then, as you read and pray, nor forgetting, of course, God's Word, there will come to your heart a conviction, an urge that God wants you to serve Him in some foreign land. And if not, the burden will lift. That urge is the voice of the Spirit. Heed it, and you will never go astray.

[So not to offend, this is not my original text, but is copied from "The Passion for Souls" by Oswals J. Smith]

10/22/2024

Do you know what you are saying when you say you do not believe in missions? [And if I may add, if you do not participate in missions...] You are saying that Paul made a mistake; that he should have left your forefathers in Europe, pagans; that it would have been better if he had stayed at home in Palestine so that you might have remained in heathenism. Is that what you think? Are you sorry you are not still a heathen? You must be if you do not believe in missions.

10/22/2024

The trouble with the average church is that the cart is put before the horse and then the pastor is told to get up on the seat and drive, and of course he find the going hard. If only we would reverse the order and accept God's plan, we would get somewhere and the going would be easy. Seek first the extension of God's kingdom world-wide, and all things will be added. God's programme never fails.

10/22/2024

So many of us are localized in our outlook. We see only our own community, our own village or town, and we never see beyond. There are those who think only of their own church and have no interest in what others are doing. Then there are some who have a larger vision. They see an entire city or province and they are ready to give their money and to work for its evangelization. But they, too, are local in their outlook, for they never see beyond the boundaries of the city or province in which they live. Then there are those who have a still larger vision. They see an entire country and they are ready to work for its evangelization. But even they are local in their outlook, for they never see beyond the boundaries of the country in which they live. There are those, however, who have a still larger vision. They see a continent and they are ready to do all they can for the evangelization of their continent. Then there are those who see an entire world. They see Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and the Islands of the Seas. They have God's vision and that is the vision He wants us to have, a world vision.

Why is it that so many of us are local in our outlook? Why do we think only of ourselves? Is God more interested in these black people living here than He is those yellow people living there? Is He more concerned about those brown people than He is about those who are white? Is it because we are so near-sighted that we do not have a world vision?....

God, from His vantage point, can look down upon an entire world and see every country, continent and island at the same time. If we could only get far enough away, we could see the world as Jesus saw it. But some of us have never traveled and we have never listened to those who have travelled. We do not study geography. We know but little of what lies beyond.

Why is it that we thing we are the people and that we are more important than any of the other peoples of the world? (next sentences are paraphrased) In Great Britain the people say, "We're the people." In Australia and New Zealand, it is the same, "We're the people." Throughout the United States on ever side, "We're the people." Once on a little island in the Pacific the natives say, "We're the people." They used to talk to foreigners like this, "You Americans," they would say, "why is it that you live away out on the outer fringe of civilization? Why don't you live nearer to the centre of things?" The idea was that we Britishers and Americans live afar off, out on the outer fringe of civilization, while they, those natives on that island in the Pacific, live at the hub. The trouble was they were localized in their outlook, they did not have a world vision. They thought they were the most important people of the world.

Is it, I wonder, because we think we are the most numerous? Some of us, I am afraid, do not realize that there are other nations in the world with even larger populations, that we are not the only pebbles on the beach....
..Why should God be more interested in us than in other nations? Oh that He would give us a world vision, that we might work for the evangelism of the entire world, the world for which Christ died, and that we might see the world as He sees it.

10/22/2024

The Gospel MUST be published among ALL nations. Why then has it not been done? 6/6
SIXTH—Because We Have Not Been Convinced that the Heathen are Lost

If they are not lost until they hear, then we had better leave them as they are. If only those who definitely reject Christ are to perish, we should never tell them about Him. Better to leave them in their ignorance than to bring them under condemnation. But the teaching of the whole Bible is that men without Christ are lost and that their only hope of salvation is in the Gospel.

Paul speaks of the heathen world in these words: "dead in trespasses and sins, children of wrath, having no hope and without God" (Eph. 2:1, 3, and 12). Could language be plainer? That is their condition. They are irretrievably and eternally lost.

Now there are two passages that settle it once and for all. The first is Acts 4:12, where it reads: "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is non other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." None of their gods, none of their religions can avail. The names of Mohammad, Confucius, Buddha, and all others, are ruled out. Christ, and Christ alone, can save.

The second statement is found in John 14:6, where Jesus says, "No man cometh unto the Father but by ME." No other way to God. Christ or damnation. "I am the Way," He declares. No one else can be. No one else is. If the heathen are not lost, then these two verses do not mean what they say.

But you say it is unjust. You find fault with God. You think a God of live would not and could not permit it. Does God owe us salvation? If so, then it is not of grace at all. He is simply paying a debt. But we deserve nothing. It is all of grace.

My friend, you can rest on one great statement and it is this: "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" I do not know what He will do, but I do know that He will be absolutely just. He will do right. I can leave it in His hands. And when at last I find out what He has done, I will be completely satisfied, for I will say, "He did right. He did what I would have done had I been in His place." We will agree with the verdict of the angel: "True and righteous are Thy judgments" (Rev. 16:7).

10/22/2024

The Gospel MUST be published among ALL nations. Why then has it not been done? 5/6
FIFTH—Because We Have Not Followed the Pauline Methods

In 2 Timothy 2:2, we have the Pauline method stated: "And the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." Paul's method was to teach other, and in turn they were to teach still others; thus workers were provided, workers trained and equipped.

Now the best way to do that today is by means of Bible Schools. The first thing we should do when we get to a foreign field is to establish a Bible School, train the workers that are available, as soon as they have been won to Christ, and then send them out as evangelists to their own people. The native himself is the key to the situation. The foreign missionary can never hope to evangelize the world. The day will never come when we will be able to put a missionary from the homeland in every village, town, and city throughout the world.

Jesus, you remember, trained the twelve; then the seventy. Paul never became a pastor. He won converts, ordained elders, and passed on. He placed the churches under native leadership, and made them self-supporting from the very first. They were living organisms. Living organisms will grow.

In Acts 9:8-10, 18-20, we have a marvellous example of the Pauline method. In two short years, we are told, all these in Asia heard the Gospel. Asia covered a territory of approximately 50,000 square miles. There was a mighty revival. Books belonging to various false cults were burned publicly; books costing thousands of dollars, so great was the upheaval.

How did it happen? Paul took charge of a school and every day he taught. Most certainly he did not, himself, travel throughout Asia and evangelize the country. So far as the record goes, he stayed in one place, but he taught others; then they in turn went everywhere preaching the Gospel, with the results described in the nineteenth chapter. Wherever he went, he "preached and taught" (Acts 14:21). That method cannot be improved upon. It will work everywhere.

The West Indies Mission has proved it. They started in Cuba with a Bible School. Not a church, mark you, but a Bible School. Then they went to Haiti and established another. Later they put one in the Dominican Republic and another in Jamaica. Now [in 1950's] they are starting a fifth in one of the French Islands. What has been the result? The students in hundreds have gone from their Bible Schools throughout the length and breadth of the Islands of the West Indies, and more than 80,000 have been won to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The old method had been followed for decades. Churches had been built in the larger towns and cities, but the country districts, where most of the people lived, were left untouched and unevangelized. The West Indies Mission went in. The Pauline method was adopted. Now [in the 1950s] annual conferences number upwards of 7,000 or more; so great has grown the Word of God and multiplied.

In Ethiopia the missionaries had made but little headway. There were only a handful of believers when [Oswald J. Smith] was there. Then the natives themselves took over and during the Italian occupation, in spite of imprisonment, floggings, and martyrdom, 20,000 were brought to Christ, and that without the help of a single missionary. [In the 1950s] there [were] 50,000 Christians and 300 native churches. What a miracle! That is the ideal way. It is the only method that really succeeds.

Such a method cuts down expenses. The natives can live cheaper. No furloughs are necessary. They can be supported by their own churches. Foreign funds are not required. All we have to do is to support the missionary and his work, and leave it to the natives to do the rest. The work then becomes self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating. That is the Scriptural way. The Pauline method cannot be improved upon.

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In 2005, I believe, maybe 2006(?), I went on a missions trip to the Dominican Republic with Bob Johnston. I had been on a handful of missions trips before this, but never met a missionary with a work so great. Not great because of the number of people that attended his church, but because of the outreach that he had created through training nationals. We were "on-the-go" every day from village to village. I really felt like we were traveling with Paul. I had the privelege of spending a few hours with him one on one for the drive back to the airport at the end of the week. I asked him if this was his "normal" week, being in a church service literally every day Sunday through Saturday only in the same place on Sunday and Wednesday night. He said that he actually cut out a few outreaches during the week we were there so we could have some rest. I had never experienced someone before who took the gospel to the level which he had. He was literally the Paul of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. If every believer cared for the gospel like Bro. Bob Johnston did, we would have reached the world. Bro. Bob passed away in a vehicle accident in 2018, and yet his ministry carries on.

10/21/2024

The Gospel MUST be published among ALL nations. Why then has it not been done? 4/6
FOURTH—Because We Have Not Sent Out a Sufficient Number of Missionaries

The problem is still one of labourers. In China there are vast harvest fields and they have to be reaped by hand; yet they are always reaped. Why? Because every man, woman, boy and girl, able to carry a sickle, goes to work; hence, there are labourers in abundance.

Our Lord recognized that problem. He said, "The harvest is plenteous but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest" (Matt. 9: 37-38). If we had a sufficient number of labourers, the job could be done, but we have always been short-handed. Today [1950's], with our increased population, the labourers are as few, in comparison, as they were in the days of Jesus. That is why we are continually appealing to the young men and women to volunteer for missionary service. We must get more labourers.

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There was a shortage of labourers in 1950, and I would dare say the shortage is far greater today. Who will go?

10/21/2024

The Gospel MUST be published among ALL nations. Why then has it not been done? 3/6
THIRD—Because of the Many Closed Doors

But what about the open doors? Why not enter them? Do we not spend too much time praying for the closed doors to open, when there are so many doors still open, waiting to be entered? Paul, you remember, turned from the closed doors, one after the other, and entered those that were open. There are open doors everywhere. Let us enter them and leave God to open the closed ones in His own good time. He knows where and when He wants us to work, and He will make it plain.

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