Are you in panic mode yet? You know what I mean. Christmas gets closer with each passing day and you are still wondering what to get that special someone. Christmas is a time for giving. And you want your gift to be special. You want it to be meaningful. That’s why you plan, worry and fret. You don’t want your gift tossed aside. No one likes to think that their hard-earned money was spent on something not appreciated. So I’m here to help you out this year. I want to give you a “sure fire” Christmas gift tip. This is something that will be used and appreciated year around. The kind of gift will not be forgotten. That is your gift to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.
Every cent that you give to the Lottie Moon Offering goes directly to support the work of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Did you know the Lottie Moon Offering provides 52% of the IMB’s annual budget? Over half their budget is supplied in this one offering. But how is it used? It goes to support 5,148 missionaries who work in around the world. It goes to support church planting efforts that last year established 23,486 new churches. It made it possible for IMB missionaries to engage 590,890 new believers in discipleship last year. It resulted in 475,072 baptisms in 2006. Your Lottie Moon gift touches the world with the life-transforming power of the Gospel. What can you do this year? How will you touch the world?
Do you know how much it cost to keep a missionary on the field for one year?
• $40,866.61 a year
• $3,405.55 a month
• $785.90 a week
• $111.96 a day
• $4.66 an hour
• $.08 a minute
Could you fund a missionary for a day? How about a week? Why not make an eternal difference with a gift this year? I’ll see you Sunday.
Rod