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| Reaching a river people in the Amazon
Basin is tough, but “If it’s only one life,
it is worth it,” says missionary Carol Brown. |
Missionary rides out the storm
Carol Brown takes one day at a time in the most difficult
years of her ministry as she fights for the salvation of
an indigenous people along a river in the Amazon rain forest.
She is only one of the 5,000-plus missionaries you support
when you give through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®.
Read
more.
You’ve got questions; we’ve
got answers
- Why give through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering?
- Can I trust how Lottie Moon Christmas Offering funds
are spent?
- Who determines the budget of the International Mission
Board?
Maybe you have questions about international
missions financing. Maybe the questions come from your
church members. Look
here for the answers.
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| Jerry Rankin, president,
International Mission Board |
Jerry Rankin: Responding to the call
Visiting the Middle East following the death of four
Southern Baptist aid workers in Iraq, International Mission
Board President Jerry Rankin offers a clear challenge to Southern
Baptists to support others who are willing to go wherever
God leads them.
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| Gaunt but hopeful villagers line
up to receive a ration of rice during a period of famine
in China during Lottie Moon’s time. |
Lottie Moon and China in her day
Photos of Lottie Moon and China during
her day are scarce and sometimes scratched and torn. But
they give us a window into the world of the woman for whom
the international missions offering is named. You can download
these photos to give folks in your church a glimpse into
Lottie’s world. View
the gallery.
Countdown for pastors and leaders
- Share a Lottie Moon Christmas Offering sermon and children’s
sermon.
- Begin collecting the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
- Share progress toward your church’s offering
goal.
- Plan to celebrate your church’s
successful offering.
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News
Celebrate 163 new people groups,
607,132 baptisms
Southern Baptist missionaries and their overseas Baptist
partners …
— engaged 163 people groups, including 131 unreached
groups, for the first time during 2003;
— baptized 607,132 believers, a net increase of 97,973
(19.2 percent);
— reported 21,028 new Baptist congregations, most
of them produced by church-planting movements among approximately
50 people groups
Besides hearing these and other annual statistics, International
Mission Board trustees meeting Nov. 16-17 in Oklahoma City
also …
— adopted a $283.1 million budget for 2005, and
— set an example for all Southern Baptists by personally
pledging $88,396 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for
International Missions.
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more.
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Quotable: Leaving more stuff
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| Ken Hemphill, national strategist for
Empowering Kingdom Growth |
“I don’t think anybody in heaven looks
down and says, ‘You know, I wish I had left more
stuff on earth. I wish I had had a bigger bank account
when I died. I wish I had left more stuff for my kids to
argue over or to put in a yard sale.’ I think when
we look back we’re going to say, ‘Why didn’t
I invest more here? Why didn’t I invest more through
that Lottie Moon Christmas Offering?’”— Ken
Hemphill, national strategist for Empowering Kingdom
Growth
Watch more of Hemphill’s comments.
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Read what Erich Bridges has to say about getting
more stuff.
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