August, 2008
THANK YOU, AGAIN, GIVING FRIENDS!
We continue to bless God and thank each of you for your continued response to our missionaries’ needs which are supplied each month from the General Fund.
I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CALLS FROM CHURCH PASTORS AND INDIVIDUAL GIVING FRIENDS THAT YOU ARE EITHER BEGINNING TO GIVE REGULAR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND – OR ELSE THAT YOU ARE INCREASING YOUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS.
I assure you that your offerings not only supply the needs of the Lord’s saints, but they are also abounding in continual and increased THANKSGIVINGS to God for you – both by our missionaries and by us who administer their support.
[see 2 Corinthians 9.12-15 and Hebrews 6.10].
We need each of us to GIVE to meet this on-going challenge and make life-long commitments to faithfully give so our missionaries’ needs can be met.
THIS IS NOT A ONE-TIME NEED. A ‘BUMP’ WILL NOT SUFFICE TO MEET IT. The need is NOW...it is REAL...it is URGENT...and IT IS LONG-TERM.
“Now therefore, KNOW...and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO...”
1 Samuel 25.17
Here is what we all need to do together: WE NEED TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO GIVE AT LEAST $37,000.00 MONTHLY TO THE GENERAL FUND.
This $37,000.00 General Fund Offering per month will come close to bringing our General Fund standard committed monthly disbursements to a point of solvency.
General Fund monthly standard disbursements are those commitments we have made to our missionaries to provide for their essential services: salary, expense accounts, hospitalization, home office overhead, etc. We make these disbursements every month. They are ‘the cost of doing the Lord’s business.’
There are other General Fund committed disbursements also – but they are not disbursed every month. They are more occasional: furlough expenses, hospitalization deductible reimbursement, 4-year auto allowances, etc. These disbursements are made throughout the year as needed, but we don’t make them every month. It still amounts to thousands of dollars each year.
OUR IMMEDIATE GOAL IS TO MAKE OUR GENERAL FUND STANDARD MONTHLY DISBURSEMENTS SOLVENT WITH OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS – and then the other General Fund disbursements which we give our missionaries periodically throughout the year can be supplied by the funds from our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
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$100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL
PRAY about our Thanksgiving Offering – and the part the Lord Jesus Christ is leading you to give to His mission.
PURPOSE in your heart what you would like to give.
PREPARE your offering ahead of time by laying up proportions of your offering over the year so you won’t have to make it up all at once.
And then – PRAY again...and some more – and ask the Lord to supply the funds to you so you can give it back to Him. [See 2 Corinthians 9.5-11]
Friday, August 8, 2008
BFM COUNCIL OF DIRECTORS
PRAY FOR YOUR BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS COUNCIL OF DIRECTORS
Terry Adkins
Glenn Archer, Vice President
Doug Armstrong, Assistant Treasurer
Bobby Creiglow
Art Donley
Bobby Greene
Randy Jones
Millard Mitchell
Jim Orrick, President
Edward Overbey, Assistant Secretary
Dave Parks, Executive Secretary
George Sledd, Treasurer
Marvin Summers
Steve Wainright
Wallace York
Terry Adkins
Glenn Archer, Vice President
Doug Armstrong, Assistant Treasurer
Bobby Creiglow
Art Donley
Bobby Greene
Randy Jones
Millard Mitchell
Jim Orrick, President
Edward Overbey, Assistant Secretary
Dave Parks, Executive Secretary
George Sledd, Treasurer
Marvin Summers
Steve Wainright
Wallace York
"MORE THAN ONE WAY TO___ _ ___"
CREATIVE MISSIONS GIVING
“THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO _____ ___ _____”
How would you complete that cliché? The most usual way would be with the words: “skin a cat”.
Frankly, I have never skinned a cat by even one method – and it has never crossed my mind to even inquire about how many different ways a cat can be skinned.
But, I do want you to think in terms of “THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO...GIVE TO MISSIONS!”
The most usual and customary method is to give PERSONAL OFFERINGS – either by adding them to our church’s regular offering to the BFM GENERAL FUND...or by giving directly to the BFM Treasurer.
But, our “TEXAS GIVING FRIENDS” [this is the way they list themselves in our monthly Contributions Report, page 3 of THE MISSION SHEETS] have been giving regular monthly offerings for several years now by another creative method of giving.
Periodically, they contribute a number of blue-chip stock certificates to BFM. Those stocks are deposited into an interest-bearing investment account. Every month, an offering amount is disbursed from that account to the BFM Treasurer. When the value of the last contribution of stock certificates is depleted, they just send some more.
These dear “TEXAS GIVING FRIENDS” wish to remain anonymous – and we will respect their wishes. But, they would also like to inspire others by their example to do as they have done. They have been faithfully giving offerings to BFM for over 40 years.
Other Giving Friends have given properties to BFM.
Still other Giving Friends have contributed personal investment accounts and even retirement accounts to meet the on-going needs of our missionaries.
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart...”
THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS YOU – TO ALL OF OUR BELOVED AND GENEROUS GIVING FRIENDS!
“THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO _____ ___ _____”
How would you complete that cliché? The most usual way would be with the words: “skin a cat”.
Frankly, I have never skinned a cat by even one method – and it has never crossed my mind to even inquire about how many different ways a cat can be skinned.
But, I do want you to think in terms of “THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO...GIVE TO MISSIONS!”
The most usual and customary method is to give PERSONAL OFFERINGS – either by adding them to our church’s regular offering to the BFM GENERAL FUND...or by giving directly to the BFM Treasurer.
But, our “TEXAS GIVING FRIENDS” [this is the way they list themselves in our monthly Contributions Report, page 3 of THE MISSION SHEETS] have been giving regular monthly offerings for several years now by another creative method of giving.
Periodically, they contribute a number of blue-chip stock certificates to BFM. Those stocks are deposited into an interest-bearing investment account. Every month, an offering amount is disbursed from that account to the BFM Treasurer. When the value of the last contribution of stock certificates is depleted, they just send some more.
These dear “TEXAS GIVING FRIENDS” wish to remain anonymous – and we will respect their wishes. But, they would also like to inspire others by their example to do as they have done. They have been faithfully giving offerings to BFM for over 40 years.
Other Giving Friends have given properties to BFM.
Still other Giving Friends have contributed personal investment accounts and even retirement accounts to meet the on-going needs of our missionaries.
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart...”
THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS YOU – TO ALL OF OUR BELOVED AND GENEROUS GIVING FRIENDS!
JULY 2008 UPDATE
July, 2008
JUNE GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS
Thank You, Giving Friends! for responding to our recent appeals for sustained, regular, long-term, increased offerings to our GENERAL FUND. You will notice on this month’s MISSION SHEETS OFFERING REPORT on page 3, we gave $35,846.79 to the GENERAL FUND. The GENERAL FUND is the source of all the standard commitments we have made to our missionaries to maintain their regular living expenses.
WE NEED TO REITERATE THAT WE MUST STRIVE FOR THE GOAL OF MAINTAINING SOLVENCY MONTH-BY-MONTH IN OUR GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. That way, we can use our Thanksgiving Offering for the extraordinary and periodic benefits we have committed to give our missionaries – like 4-Year Auto Allowances, Furlough Transportation, etc.
THANK YOU to our long-time faithful Giving Friends – and THANK YOU to you who have either begun to give regular offerings to the General Fund, or who have increased your personal offerings.
THANK YOU to the churches who have increased your monthly commitments to the General Fund – some of you have done so AGAIN after already increasing your monthly offerings in recent previous months.
WE ARE STILL ASKING THAT ALL OF US GIVE TOGETHER TO HELP US REACH THE IMMEDIATE GOAL OF AT LEAST $37,000.00 IN OUR CONSISTENT MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR PART!
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2007-2008 THANKSGIVING OFFERING
I promised you I would keep you updated on the Thanksgiving Offering Total. I also told you that we would keep the Thanksgiving Offering open indefinitely as long as you are giving to it. Well, some of you did continue to give to the Thanksgiving Offering right on up through the middle of this year. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! THE TOTAL THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS: $64,650.57.
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2008-09 THANKSGIVING OFFERING: $100,000.00 GOAL
Begin planning right now – if you haven’t already purposed – to give a very generous offering to our 2008-09 THANKSGIVING OFFERING. PLAN AHEAD. And then WORK YOUR PLAN methodically and systematically between now and then to help us reach our goal of $100,000.00 for our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
JUNE GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS
Thank You, Giving Friends! for responding to our recent appeals for sustained, regular, long-term, increased offerings to our GENERAL FUND. You will notice on this month’s MISSION SHEETS OFFERING REPORT on page 3, we gave $35,846.79 to the GENERAL FUND. The GENERAL FUND is the source of all the standard commitments we have made to our missionaries to maintain their regular living expenses.
WE NEED TO REITERATE THAT WE MUST STRIVE FOR THE GOAL OF MAINTAINING SOLVENCY MONTH-BY-MONTH IN OUR GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. That way, we can use our Thanksgiving Offering for the extraordinary and periodic benefits we have committed to give our missionaries – like 4-Year Auto Allowances, Furlough Transportation, etc.
THANK YOU to our long-time faithful Giving Friends – and THANK YOU to you who have either begun to give regular offerings to the General Fund, or who have increased your personal offerings.
THANK YOU to the churches who have increased your monthly commitments to the General Fund – some of you have done so AGAIN after already increasing your monthly offerings in recent previous months.
WE ARE STILL ASKING THAT ALL OF US GIVE TOGETHER TO HELP US REACH THE IMMEDIATE GOAL OF AT LEAST $37,000.00 IN OUR CONSISTENT MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR PART!
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2007-2008 THANKSGIVING OFFERING
I promised you I would keep you updated on the Thanksgiving Offering Total. I also told you that we would keep the Thanksgiving Offering open indefinitely as long as you are giving to it. Well, some of you did continue to give to the Thanksgiving Offering right on up through the middle of this year. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! THE TOTAL THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS: $64,650.57.
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2008-09 THANKSGIVING OFFERING: $100,000.00 GOAL
Begin planning right now – if you haven’t already purposed – to give a very generous offering to our 2008-09 THANKSGIVING OFFERING. PLAN AHEAD. And then WORK YOUR PLAN methodically and systematically between now and then to help us reach our goal of $100,000.00 for our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
JUNE 2008 UPDATE
DID YOU READ THE URGENT APPEAL FOR THE GENERAL FUND IN LAST MONTH’S MISSION SHEETS INSERT?
I hope you did, and I urge you to ask the Lord how you should respond.
We need long-term, lifetime commitments from every one of our missionaries’ Giving Friends. THAT IS THE KIND OF COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND. And the only way we can fulfill those financial commitments is for each one of us to do our personal giving to missions.
We are only in the middle of the year, and we must begin this month to meet our monthly disbursement commitments from the General Fund with our monthly offerings to the General Fund.
Our immediate goal is to increase our consistent monthly GENERAL FUND offerings to $37,000.00 per month.
IF YOU MISSED THE APPEAL, YOU MAY FIND IT ON www.faith-works.blogspot.com.
EVERY ONE OF US NEEDS TO RESPOND THIS MONTH.
Many have already responded by increasing their personal monthly giving commitments.
Some have increased the offerings they give BFM through their church’s offerings – others have begun sending their personal offerings directly to Brother Sledd, BFM’s Treasurer.
Pastors have led their churches to increase their monthly offerings to the General Fund.
GOD BLESS YOU EACH ONE!
I hope you did, and I urge you to ask the Lord how you should respond.
We need long-term, lifetime commitments from every one of our missionaries’ Giving Friends. THAT IS THE KIND OF COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND. And the only way we can fulfill those financial commitments is for each one of us to do our personal giving to missions.
We are only in the middle of the year, and we must begin this month to meet our monthly disbursement commitments from the General Fund with our monthly offerings to the General Fund.
Our immediate goal is to increase our consistent monthly GENERAL FUND offerings to $37,000.00 per month.
IF YOU MISSED THE APPEAL, YOU MAY FIND IT ON www.faith-works.blogspot.com.
EVERY ONE OF US NEEDS TO RESPOND THIS MONTH.
Many have already responded by increasing their personal monthly giving commitments.
Some have increased the offerings they give BFM through their church’s offerings – others have begun sending their personal offerings directly to Brother Sledd, BFM’s Treasurer.
Pastors have led their churches to increase their monthly offerings to the General Fund.
GOD BLESS YOU EACH ONE!
PASTOR TERRY ADKINS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR
MAY, 2008
PASTOR TERRY ADKINS: BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS DIRECTOR
Pastor Terry Adkins has consented to serve as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastor Adkins is pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Dearborn Heights MI. New Hope church is also the long-time host church for our Thanksgiving Conference.
Each Director serves with the consent and authority of the church where he is a member and where he serves the Lord.
Each Director agrees without reservation to our Doctrinal Statement of beliefs and practices. That same Doctrinal Statement expresses the convictions and distinctives of the churches who partner together to support our missionaries.
Each Director also agrees with the missionary purpose of Baptist Faith Missions and commits to promote our missionaries’ needs.
We welcome Pastor Adkins and look forward to many years of partnership in the Gospel and missions.
PASTOR TERRY ADKINS: BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS DIRECTOR
Pastor Terry Adkins has consented to serve as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastor Adkins is pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Dearborn Heights MI. New Hope church is also the long-time host church for our Thanksgiving Conference.
Each Director serves with the consent and authority of the church where he is a member and where he serves the Lord.
Each Director agrees without reservation to our Doctrinal Statement of beliefs and practices. That same Doctrinal Statement expresses the convictions and distinctives of the churches who partner together to support our missionaries.
Each Director also agrees with the missionary purpose of Baptist Faith Missions and commits to promote our missionaries’ needs.
We welcome Pastor Adkins and look forward to many years of partnership in the Gospel and missions.
APRIL 2008 UPDATE
APRIL, 2008
GIVING FRIENDS! “MAY YOUR TRIBE INCREASE!”
A Giving Friend called me last October, responding to an article I had written in the September Mission Sheets entitled ‘MISSIONS ALERT! WHAT’S A MISSIONARY WORTH?’ In that article, I was emphasizing the needs we were going to face in the upcoming year due to assuming support for two more missionary families.
This Giving Friend asked, “Do I correctly assume from that appeal that the greatest need Baptist Faith Missions faces right now is increased offerings to the General Fund?” I replied, “Yes, that’s correct.” To which this generous Giving Friend said, “Then I am going to start giving a monthly offering to the General Fund to help supply the monthly needs of our missionaries.” THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
A fellow pastor called me at the end of last year and said, “We are planning our church budget for 2008, and we want to begin supporting the General Fund of Baptist Faith Missions. We can’t do a whole lot right now, but we want to make a beginning.” They have begun that monthly support for the General Fund. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
Another fellow pastor called me not too long after that and said, “Our church has voted to increase our monthly offerings to the General Fund to help us supply the on-going needs of our missionaries.” They have begun that increased monthly support. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
And THANK YOU, ALL YOU GIVING FRIENDS WHO HAVE MET OUR MISSIONARIES’ MONTHLY NEEDS ALL ALONG. We don’t take you for granted. Your offerings not only supply the commitments we have made to our missionaries, but YOUR GIVING ALSO INCREASES AND MULTIPLIES MANY THANKSGIVINGS TO GOD! We bless God for the Grace He gives you to give – and our missionaries thank God for your generosity, too.
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THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
I have told you all along that I would keep you updated on the progress of our Thanksgiving Offering. As you know, the Thanksgiving Offering goes toward offsetting the monthly deficits we incur between the monthly offerings for the General Fund and the disbursements we make each month for the commitments we have made to our missionaries.
OUR CURRENT OFFERING TOTAL IS $64,600.57. That includes the latest offering given in March which appears in this month’s Offering Report.
WE ARE PRAYING, HOPING, AND APPEALING FOR $175,000, which was what we projected we would need over 2008 to supply the increased commitments we assumed by approving support for two additional missionary families. ALSO, we have committed to covering the expenses for Language School and shipping the container with their personal and ministry effects to Kenya. Those two expenses alone were more than $20,000.
Your offerings will bear the fruit of many more believers, disciples, and churches being established through the ministries of all our missionaries.
WE NEED YOUR INCREASED OFFERINGS TO THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND MORE THAN WE HAVE EVER NEEDED THEM BEFORE! Please increase your personal monthly offering to the BFM General Fund – and also remember that THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS STILL OPEN!
GIVING FRIENDS! “MAY YOUR TRIBE INCREASE!”
A Giving Friend called me last October, responding to an article I had written in the September Mission Sheets entitled ‘MISSIONS ALERT! WHAT’S A MISSIONARY WORTH?’ In that article, I was emphasizing the needs we were going to face in the upcoming year due to assuming support for two more missionary families.
This Giving Friend asked, “Do I correctly assume from that appeal that the greatest need Baptist Faith Missions faces right now is increased offerings to the General Fund?” I replied, “Yes, that’s correct.” To which this generous Giving Friend said, “Then I am going to start giving a monthly offering to the General Fund to help supply the monthly needs of our missionaries.” THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
A fellow pastor called me at the end of last year and said, “We are planning our church budget for 2008, and we want to begin supporting the General Fund of Baptist Faith Missions. We can’t do a whole lot right now, but we want to make a beginning.” They have begun that monthly support for the General Fund. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
Another fellow pastor called me not too long after that and said, “Our church has voted to increase our monthly offerings to the General Fund to help us supply the on-going needs of our missionaries.” They have begun that increased monthly support. THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
And THANK YOU, ALL YOU GIVING FRIENDS WHO HAVE MET OUR MISSIONARIES’ MONTHLY NEEDS ALL ALONG. We don’t take you for granted. Your offerings not only supply the commitments we have made to our missionaries, but YOUR GIVING ALSO INCREASES AND MULTIPLIES MANY THANKSGIVINGS TO GOD! We bless God for the Grace He gives you to give – and our missionaries thank God for your generosity, too.
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THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
I have told you all along that I would keep you updated on the progress of our Thanksgiving Offering. As you know, the Thanksgiving Offering goes toward offsetting the monthly deficits we incur between the monthly offerings for the General Fund and the disbursements we make each month for the commitments we have made to our missionaries.
OUR CURRENT OFFERING TOTAL IS $64,600.57. That includes the latest offering given in March which appears in this month’s Offering Report.
WE ARE PRAYING, HOPING, AND APPEALING FOR $175,000, which was what we projected we would need over 2008 to supply the increased commitments we assumed by approving support for two additional missionary families. ALSO, we have committed to covering the expenses for Language School and shipping the container with their personal and ministry effects to Kenya. Those two expenses alone were more than $20,000.
Your offerings will bear the fruit of many more believers, disciples, and churches being established through the ministries of all our missionaries.
WE NEED YOUR INCREASED OFFERINGS TO THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND MORE THAN WE HAVE EVER NEEDED THEM BEFORE! Please increase your personal monthly offering to the BFM General Fund – and also remember that THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS STILL OPEN!
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