The Holmes Family: Conference/Camp Schedule

Greetings from Abuja! Our ministry is pleased to share with you our schedule for this year:

6 Soul-Winning & Leadership Conferences in 2024

**Every church represented will receive a box of scriptures at each conference**

Including the Pastors & Workers Conference being held 4-7 February at Faith Baptist Church of Ogbomoso with our able host, Pastor Samuel Akande. I am privileged to preach with Missionary Evangelist Don Wattenbarger, Pastor Jide Popoola, and Missionary David Orus, among others. We are thankful for the strength of this meeting!

• 9-11 February 2024: 5th Regional Soul-Winning & Leadership Conference in Jos

Venue: Zion Independent Baptist Church in Zarazon; Host Pastor: Bro. Ayuba Agwom 0803.665.2070

Guest Preacher: Missionary Evangelist Don Wattenbarger of Bibles Beyond Boundaries

• 1-4 April 2024: 15th Annual National Soul-Winning & Leadership Conference

Venue: Truth Baptist Church of Nyanya-Abuja; Host Pastor: Missionary Mark Holmes

Guest Preachers: Pastor Ken Shinn & Missionary Evangelist Curtis Hall of BEST Missions

• 7-10 April 2024: 5th Regional Soul-Winning & Leadership Conference in Calabar

Venue: Independent Baptist Church of Calabar; Host Pastor: Bro. Nicholas Wayih 0706.920.7700

Guest Preachers: Missionary Evangelist Bro. Curtis Hall of BEST Missions and Pastor James Abbey

• 27-30 October 2024: Missions & Leadership Conference in Port Harcourt

Venue: Independent Baptist Church of PHC; Host Pastor: Missionary David Maskey 0805.176.9616

Guest Preachers: FBMI Missionary Evangelist Jim Belisle & IWWE Missionary Evangelist Denton Bell

• 3-5 November 2024: 7th Revival Meeting & Pastors Fellowship in Ibadan

Venue: Lighthouse Independent Bible Baptist Church; Host Pastor: Bro. Gbenga Dada 0803.062.9978

Guest Preachers: FBMI Missionary Evangelist Jim Belisle & IWWE Missionary Evangelist Denton Bell

3 Student Missions Institutes for Training in Evangelism (S.M.I.T.E.) in 2024

Pray for S.M.I.T.E.’s also in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, and Tanzania.

These camps equip youth to reach children through Bible Clubs; giving opportunities to practice what is taught.

*4-9 August 2024: 7th Regional S.M.I.T.E. in Ogbomoso

Venue: Berean Baptist Church of Ogbomoso; Host Pastor: Bro. Timothy Adesina 090.6997.5944

*18-23 August 2024: 13th Annual National S.M.I.T.E. in Abuja

Venue: Truth Baptist Church of Nyanya-Abuja; Host Pastor: Missionary Mark Holmes

*25-30 August 2024: S.M.I.T.E. Port Harcourt

Venue: Independent Baptist Church of PHC; Host Pastor: Missionary David Maskey

Who We Are

Mark Joseph Holmes was called to the ministry at the age of fifteen, five years after he was saved. He went to Hyles-Anderson College to receive his training and graduated summa cum laude in 2000 with a degree in Pastoral Theology. During Mark’s senior year, God placed on his heart the desire to reach the people of Nigeria, so he spent an extra year in preparation by taking missions courses. Mark served on the same bus route each college year, as captain for three years.

Sabrina Michelle (Hopkins) was saved at the age of eight and surrendered her life to God five years later. While at Hyles-Anderson College studying music education, she served in the Bible Club and deaf ministry and also traveled one summer with a tour group. After graduation with a Music Education degree, during the year before their wedding, Sabrina taught fourth grade at her home church’s Christian school—Central Baptist in Baton Rouge.

As newlyweds, Mark and Sabrina served at their sending church where Mark oversaw the bus ministry and helped in the youth department, Sunday schools, and junior churches. He was privileged to start a children's church and young adult class during his two years of service, and he also regularly preached at a prison ministry and taught for a local Bible institute. Sabrina taught private piano for two Christian schools; she played often in the church services and also taught the beginner Sunday school class. Mark and Sabrina started full-time deputation at the end of May, 2003. Mark Joseph, Junior was born on December 4th of the same year.

In June of 2005, the Holmes family began their first term as Fundamental Baptist Missions International missionaries in Nigeria. Soon, Truth Baptist Church along with Temple Baptist Institute was started, the church now averaging 220 on Sundays with 42 graduates from the ministry training school. Property with buildings was purchased, and Providence Baptist College & Seminary opened its doors in August 2009 and has now produced 30 graduates. 35 churches have been started by those who have been trained or ordained by their ministry, including one of the most recent, Grace & Glory Baptist Church in Abuja, in which the Holmes family is also involved. Mark and Sabrina have returned to the U.S. for the birth of: Victoria Noel 12/14/05
Brian Michael 8/20/07
Noah Preston 2/3/12

LaDonna Elizabeth 7/3/14
For nearly a decade, Truth Baptist Church has been the home of a national pastors' conference, an annual youth camp, a full curriculum DVD correspondence college, and the City of Refuge recently became their newest ministry.

Where We Are

The Niger River is Nigeria’s most remarkable physical feature, as well as the source of its name. Formerly a British colony, Nigeria gained its independence in 1960 and became an independent nation of three culturally distinctive regions and at least 250 different language groups—more than any other African country. Home of the world’s largest black population, it is estimated that almost one out of every six Africans resides in Nigeria.

Upon independence, Nigeria inherited a currency that was more valuable than the U.S. dollar at the time. Yet the country has consumed itself with the sell of oil and other natural resources and all but abandoned its agricultural sector, leading to Nigeria’s diminished currency value and heightened reliance upon imports and aide from other countries. Military coups, ethnic tensions, a thirty month “civil war” that claimed over a million lives, and economic corruption have been the driving forces behind Nigeria’s instability of the last forty years. In 1998 a democracy was established, ending fifteen years of military rule.

Baptists have enjoyed a presence in the country for over 150 years with the Southern Baptists growing their own national convention and an estimated Baptist population numbering more than 3.5 million people; the former President of Nigeria was a claimed Baptist. However, Muslim influences are growing greater, indigenous beliefs are still popular, and many existing Baptist churches have abandoned biblical doctrines. There is a great need to reach the rest of the more than 170 million people of Africa’s most populous and possibly most influential nation.

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