The purpose of the Baptist Layman is to "equip every man and boy to become a participant in the church as a life-style missionary." Leaders work to inform, motivate and to involve men and boys in praying, studying, enlisting, giving, ministering and witnessing in their community and to their world.

1. Engage in mission activities.
These activities include mission action, personal evangelism, mass evangelism, and special mission projects.

2. Teach missions.
We want to first involve men in mission and then having activated their interest, move them into study.

3. Pray for and give to missions.
The Baptist Layman must have a heart for mission and with the heart for missions that leads us to pray continually for missions. The Baptist Layman also supports mission offerings that help carry out the great commission.

4. Develop personal ministry.
This means "to discover and implement a service to others which a person is uniquely and spiritually gifted to perform."

5. Interpret and undergird the work of the church and the denomination.
Accomplishing this task strengthens not only the Baptist Layman work but also that of the church and the various agencies of the denomination.