ABOUT US
We are the Rutledge Family missionaries to Thailand. We are Independent, Fundamental Baptists. We use only the King James Bible as our sole authority in faith and practice. We are members of Bible Baptist Church of Anderson SC, Pastor Ken Whitt. The Lord has called us to the country of Thailand to take the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the regions beyond. Please allow us to take a few minutes and tell a little about ourselves.
Harman Rutledge
I was saved at the age of 15. The Lord has really blessed in our lives and in the last few years I have grown closer than I have ever been with the Lord. I have been teaching the teenagers at Bible Baptist Church for the last two years and together with my wife we headed up the teen program at our church. The Lord called me to preach in Oct. of 2008. I immediately began to seek the will of God for my life. Knowing that a call to preach was a call to prepare, I began Bible College courses by correspondence right away. All the while I continued to serve the Lord in our church, teaching the teen Sunday School class, soul winning visitation, and working in our Jockey Lot ministry, which is an evangelism effort at our local flea market.
As I sought the will of God for my life, the Lord began to burden my heart for the people of Thailand, and in particular Bro. Jim Barlow, one of our supported missionaries. I just kept praying, and after about a year of prayer I was sure that the Lord was calling me to Thailand. It is such a joy to know that I am right in the center of God’s will. My life verse that I try to live by on a daily basis is: Psalm 91:1, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. This has been my goal in life for the Lord, to dwell in the secret place with Him. Now, I am looking forward to going to Thailand and being used of God on the foreign mission field, to lead them from darkness to light. Amen
Billie-Jo Rutledge
I was raised in a Christian home and went to Christian school all of my life. I made a profession of faith at the age of 8. It was not until I was married and had two children that I realized I was lost. Let me take a moment and share this with you. My husband and I were attending Bible Baptist Church and considering joining there. We had attended for a few weeks, and sat under Pastor Whitt’s preaching of the Word of God. God had been dealing with my heart for a long time and I was too proud to admit that I was lost. I kept taking myself back to the profession I made as a child. On the very Sunday morning that we were to join Bible Baptist Church, having already discussed this with our pastor, during the alter call the pastor looked over and motioned to us. Well I could not take it anymore. I knew that I was lost and that I needed Jesus to save me. I leaned over and grabbed my husband before he could step out, and said to him, “I am not sure that I am saved”. He just looked at me all surprised and said, “well you better go ahead and take care of that right now, we can join later”. I am so glad that I let Jesus have His way with me. I came up from that alter with a renewed joy in my soul. All the guilt was gone. I was Born Again, thank the Lord. That was Jan. 4th 2004, and the very next week we joined the church, my husband by letter, and myself by baptism.
From that point on, we both began to grow under the preaching of God’s Holy Word. Then in about 2006, the Lord really began to work on our hearts. We were really allowing our God to get closer to us. We took over the teen group Jan. 2008. It has been a real joy to serve our God in this capacity. I have also served as a Sunday school teacher since 2004 in various age groups of children. When my husband surrendered to the ministry in 2008 my life took a new turn. It was like the Lord worked all this in my heart to go right along with my husband’s calling. We made a lot of changes in our lives. We were now planning to do whatever it takes to serve the Lord. We both prayed about the mission field for about a year. It was really a work of God in our hearts. After our Survey trip in Jan. 2010, the Lord had our hearts broken into a thousand pieces. We are now trying our best to get to the field. Amen
