2006-07 THANKSGIVING OFFERING: "STILL GOING!"

10 January 2007

I just got the report for the December offerings from our faithful Treasurer, Pastor George Sledd. Brother Sledd works daily to receive your offerings, record them, and then send them to me each month to be disbursed according to your directions.

Let me give you an updated report on the current Thanksgiving Offering.

December's Thanksgiving Offering was $47,374.63.

Putting all our Thanksgiving Offerings together from the past three months, that brings us to a Grand-Total-To-Date of $78,591.38. That is a very good and generous offering. And we thank each of you, our Giving Friends.

But, we really need to meet our stated goal of $85,000.00.

Let me tell you why: one of my responsibilities as Secretary is to prepare a Projected Budget to present to the Directors at our Thanksgiving Conference Business Meeting. Well, when I prepared and presented the 2007 Projected Budget, THERE WAS A PROJECTED DEFICIT OF AROUND $84,000.00. We always need, expect and depend upon the Thanksgiving Offering to supply that deficit. So, that's why we are asking for AT LEAST an $85,000.00 Thanksgiving Offering. [Of course, the other option for supplying that deficit is for the MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS also to increase in the upcoming year over the past year.]

In addition to our current General Fund commitments to our missionaries, we are also giving serious consideration to increasing our missions outreach during 2007. And, it is imperative that we have the funds available to us to meet those missions commitments.

So, we're going to do something unprecedented.
WE ARE EXTENDING THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING
AND ASKING YOU TO GIVE AGAIN.

We need to increase our current Thanksgiving Offering total by at least 10%. Can you give again at least a small percentage of the offering you have already given? We can all do that in some proportion as the Lord enables you and impresses you.

I know that some of you have given sacrificially already. So, you may not have anything more to give. But, some may have not given anything yet, thinking your offering may have been so small or insignificant it wouldn't make a difference.

Well, the difference you can make is the difference we need right now!

We will keep you updated on our continuing progress.

GOD BLESS YOU EVERY ONE, GIVING FRIENDS!