North American Mission Board

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The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is the domestic missions agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. It exists to assist Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission in the United States, Canada, and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners. Funding for this agency comes from the gifts of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Annie Armstrong (1850-1938) was an advocate for missions at home and abroad. 100 percent of AAEO contributions goes toward funding the more than 5,200 Southern Baptist missionaries serving in North America.

NAMB was founded in 1997 out of the roots of the Home Mission Board. The agency's current president, church planting missionary Dr. Geoff Hammond, was approved by the agency's board of trustees March 21, 2007. Geoff Hammond was born in Ogbomosho, Nigeria, to missionary parents and raised in Zimbabwe. He was appointed as an International Mission Board missionary to Recife, Brazil in 1990. During those seven years, he served as a professor at the North Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary and assisted in church planting with the Pernambuco Baptist State Convention. Returning to the United States in 1997, Hammond served for two years as director of missions for the Washington Madison Baptist Association in north-west Arkansas before becoming a church planting strategist with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia and minister of Global Missions at FBC, Norfolk, Virginia. In 2002, he became senior associate director of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia.

NAMB is currently headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.