Mission Statement
The mission of SMRM is revealing the presence of God to those who live, work, and play in the resort settings of Sevier County and the Smoky Mountains.
Our Purpose
Our Vision
Transition in Leadership
Volunteers Trained Annually
Annual Visitors to Smokies
Our Goals
Evangelism
Our evangelism must be personal and intentional. We are to tell the Good News with urgency and sensitivity.
Ministry
Ministry is helping people meet their needs and hopes in Christ name.
Congregationalizing
Our task is to grow the Church through new Christians and through mission involvement.
Training
Training and Eduction to @400 volunteers including summer missionaries and groups.
We have Good News to share
Smoky Mountain Resort Ministries is a Christian ministry that functions as an independent non-profit ministry. Its purpose is to reveal the presence of God to those who live, work, and play in the resort settings of Sevier County. Its roots are in the Sevier County Association of Baptists.
Resort ministry is communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people caught up in a leisure lifestyle. Our purpose is to express the love of God and the care of the churches to those people who visit in the resort settings and to those people, both seasonal and permanent, who work in the resort industries of Sevier County.
Recent News
Andy and Jodie had a chance to spread some trail magic! This is Token from Savannah, Ga. Please say a prayer for him as he was having some “toe issues”. If your toe hurts, you hurt all over! 1978 miles to go!
Our Team
Volunteer
Stories
Summer Staff 2022
Thank you to our summer staff of 2022. We had a blast serving with you.
Finding Center
July, 2020: Our world is out of Center. Our hearts are pushed sideways. Our minds are too filled with unknown. Our actions betray our confusion. There is so much unknown. We are out of balance.
Smoky Mountain Resort Ministries and I (Bill Black) would offer for us centering thoughts. We would invite all to settle into the Center that is God; to enter into the Holy. To be restored in our hope. To live in such prayers
Thanks be to God
Much of my (Bill) personal life is centered around recognizing, entering into, and experiencing God moments. My response is an open “thanks be to God.” I do live and love that expression: “thanks be to God.”
In resort ministry we are granted holy moments
Resort Ministries
Listed below are different ministry programs in which SMRM works to share the Gospel with the leisure lifestyle people who live, work, and play in these resort areas.
Campground Ministry
Sunday worship services, day camps, family programs and chaplain relations
Ski Ministry
Employee Devotionals and bible studies, Skier Sunday worship services, Host program, Chaplain relationship
International Student Workers
Outreach to students working in the area including transportation, hospitality and relationship
Theme Parks/Special Attractions
Chaplain relationships with employees and guests
Special Events
Fourth of July Parade and the Gatlinburg Craftsmen’s Fair to name a couple
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Core Value
The call to salvation is at one and the same time a call to mission.
Our Vision is Creatively sharing Christ with others, ministering to their needs and hopes, and growing the Church through mission involvement.
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Thanks be to God