About Us
Who is Global Baptist Gospel Projects Missions, Inc.?
Global Baptist Gospel Projects Missions, Inc. — also known as Global Baptist Missions — is an outgrowth of the ministry of the Twentieth Century Scottish evangelist James Alexander Stewart.
As a young lad, James Stewart was an avid and excellent football (soccer) player with hopes of one day playing for a professional team. Fittingly, James was on a football field when he was converted to Christ at 14-years of age. Immediately he began testifying of the Lord Jesus Christ in his neighborhood, mission halls, and church buildings. After eight or nine years of laboring in open-air, tent, and church meetings in the United Kingdom, he felt God leading him to the mission fields of Europe (see Revival Literature books, I Must Tell and James Stewart Missionary).
In 1939, young Stewart was evangelizing in Hungary when he met and married Ruth Mahan, a Baptist missionary from the United States who had been sent in 1938 to Hungary to lead a training school for women.
Later at the Keswick Convention in England, Stewart presented his spiritual burden for Europe as a mission field. To accomplish this task, he founded the European Evangelistic Crusade. After directing the mission for about ten years, he made his first trip to the United States. While in the States, he established a US branch of the EEC.
Founding Revival Literature
By 1945 Dr. Stewart had started Revival Literature. Subsequently he and his wife Ruth wrote and published more than 40 titles on the subjects of revival, evangelism, and the Holy Spirit, plus mini-commentaries for national pastors on many mission fields of the world. From the beginning, Revival Literature has been a non-profit organization and the revenues from our books, booklets, Bibles, pamphlets, and tracts have always gone right back into the work of the ministry. Every book you purchase goes back into the ministry for the operation of our ministry offices and the translation, publication, and distribution of the Word of God and sound Christian materials.
When Dr. Stewart’s health began to decline, he could no longer bear the burden of directing a large multinational mission. He left the EEC and established a smaller ministry that was first called the James and Ruth Stewart Evangelistic Society, which later became Gospel Projects. Dr. James A. Stewart was a devoted servant of the Lord and was used mightily in the area of revival around the world including Latvia, Scotland, and here in the United States. In 1975 the Lord was pleased to take James Stewart home.
Passing the Torch
Following the death of Dr. Stewart, his son-in-law, Dr. Bob Doom (husband of Dr. Stewart’s eldest daughter, Shelia), assumed the role of director of Gospel Projects. In 1982 the name of the mission was expanded to Global Baptist Gospel Projects Missions, Inc. and is now mainly known as Global Baptist Missions. Dr. Doom went home to be with the Lord in 2021 after 46 years of faithful service to GBM. His longtime assistant, and brother-in-law, Brother Ben Wilkerson (husband to the second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Stewart, Sharon), was appointed by the GBM board of directors to direct the ministries in early 2022. Brother Ben and Sister Sharon served as missionaries in Upstate NY for 19 years where they labored to reopen closed churches. He is now the pastor of Grace Fellowship Baptist Church in Arden, NC. As pastor of the church and director of GBM, and seeing that our campuses are located side-by-side, these ministries are inseparably linked together in the service of the Lord.
The Ministry Today
Today, GBM labors alongside missionaries in various fields of service including Mexico, Peru, India, Egypt, the Philippines, and among the Hispanic and Native American populations here in the United States.
Also under the umbrella of GBM is the Global Bible Society. Through GBS we help produce and publish parallel New Testaments and partial Old Testaments in English and Cherokee. Additionally, Global Bible Society has published in both Cherokee and Choctaw languages, hymnals with musical notation. Global Bible Society was recently gifted more than 57 American Indian Scriptures—Bibles, New Testaments and Scripture portions—to make available to tribes across the USA.
We have also had the privilege of giving Bibles away and/or purchasing Bibles for local jail and street ministries, as well as Telugu Bibles in India and English Bibles in the Philippines. The funds for these projects were either given by our faithful donors, as one time gifts designated specifically to these projects, or generated through the sales of Revival Literature materials.
Committed to Accuracy
GBM is committed to faithful translations of the Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament and the Received Text New Testament. We give due diligence to make sure that every Bible we aid in the circulation of is based on these lines of manuscripts.