2009 BFM SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE
APRIL 20, 21, 22
THOMPSON ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, LEXINGTON KY
MARK THESE DATES – PLAN TO COME!
daveparks@insightbb.com
Saturday, February 7, 2009
THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
Thanks to your generous giving, our THANKSGIVING OFFERING-to-date is $77,711.09. That includes the December offerings reported in this issue of our monthly newletter, THE MISSION SHEETS.
We bless God for these financial provisions going into 2009. We will need all this – and more – to meet the challenges we will continue to face during the upcoming year. But, GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU. We believe we are doing God's work in God's way – and that God will supply all our needs according to His riches in Glory through Christ Jesus – as we ASK HIM, TRUST HIM, OBEY HIM, AND SERVE HIM!
Thanks to all of you who continue to give sacrificially and lovingly to Jesus Christ and to all our faithful missionaries. God has blessed you with His Grace to give and will continue to do so – as we obediently follow Christ.
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GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
Look at the total in this issues' General Fund column. This month's General Fund offering is $41,000.+ We haven't received a MONTHLY GENERAL FUND offering in this amount during all of 2007 or 2008 [or 2006 or 2005, either. Only in October 2004 did our monthly General Fund offerings exceed this month's.]
We bless God for every one of you who gives to any and all of our missionaries' needs – but especially to you who give to the GENERAL FUND to supply the Essential Maintenance Transactions we must disburse each month to keep our missionaries on their fields of service.
DEDUCTIONS FROM MISSIONARIES' MONTHLY DEPOSITS
We have had to make proportionate deductions from each of our missionaries' total deposits for the past two months to meet the monthly Essential Maintenance Transactions. Essential Maintenance Transactions are: salaries, standard expense allowances, hospitalization premiums, and Mission Sheets. These are expenses which almost all other missionaries must raise on their own through deputation and solicitation.
We provide these commitments from the General Fund. But, when the Monthly General Fund offering is not enough to cover these Essential Maintenance Transactions, then we must ask the missionaries to make up what lacks through proportionate deductions from their total deposits. We are making every effort to be sure these deductions, when necessary, are as fair and equitable as possible for each missionary.
WE WILL NOT NEED TO DO THAT THIS MONTH WITH THIS MONTH'S GENERAL FUND OFFERING.
THANKSGIVING OFFERING USES
We will need to use the Thanksgiving Offering from month to month during 2009 to provide for those other services, benefits, and commitments we have made to our missionaries which are not due every month, but will come due for them more periodically throughout the year. These are operating expenses, support services, furlough transportations, and Auto Allowances [when available].
We commit to you, our faithful Giving Friends, that we will administer your offerings as wisely, prudently, and cost-effectively as God enables us. But, we cannot disburse beyond our means. If we have made commitments to our missionaries, and the funds are not available to meet those commitments, then we must tell them we don't have the wherewithal to do it.
The missionaries may be asking you from time to time to help supply for them from your designated offerings some of the commitments we have made to them from the General Fund, but which may not be available to give them.
ALL OF YOUR OFFERINGS ARE BEING USED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST, AND ESTABLISH BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. You have no better investment for your money.
Thanks to your generous giving, our THANKSGIVING OFFERING-to-date is $77,711.09. That includes the December offerings reported in this issue of our monthly newletter, THE MISSION SHEETS.
We bless God for these financial provisions going into 2009. We will need all this – and more – to meet the challenges we will continue to face during the upcoming year. But, GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU. We believe we are doing God's work in God's way – and that God will supply all our needs according to His riches in Glory through Christ Jesus – as we ASK HIM, TRUST HIM, OBEY HIM, AND SERVE HIM!
Thanks to all of you who continue to give sacrificially and lovingly to Jesus Christ and to all our faithful missionaries. God has blessed you with His Grace to give and will continue to do so – as we obediently follow Christ.
-______________________-
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
Look at the total in this issues' General Fund column. This month's General Fund offering is $41,000.+ We haven't received a MONTHLY GENERAL FUND offering in this amount during all of 2007 or 2008 [or 2006 or 2005, either. Only in October 2004 did our monthly General Fund offerings exceed this month's.]
We bless God for every one of you who gives to any and all of our missionaries' needs – but especially to you who give to the GENERAL FUND to supply the Essential Maintenance Transactions we must disburse each month to keep our missionaries on their fields of service.
DEDUCTIONS FROM MISSIONARIES' MONTHLY DEPOSITS
We have had to make proportionate deductions from each of our missionaries' total deposits for the past two months to meet the monthly Essential Maintenance Transactions. Essential Maintenance Transactions are: salaries, standard expense allowances, hospitalization premiums, and Mission Sheets. These are expenses which almost all other missionaries must raise on their own through deputation and solicitation.
We provide these commitments from the General Fund. But, when the Monthly General Fund offering is not enough to cover these Essential Maintenance Transactions, then we must ask the missionaries to make up what lacks through proportionate deductions from their total deposits. We are making every effort to be sure these deductions, when necessary, are as fair and equitable as possible for each missionary.
WE WILL NOT NEED TO DO THAT THIS MONTH WITH THIS MONTH'S GENERAL FUND OFFERING.
THANKSGIVING OFFERING USES
We will need to use the Thanksgiving Offering from month to month during 2009 to provide for those other services, benefits, and commitments we have made to our missionaries which are not due every month, but will come due for them more periodically throughout the year. These are operating expenses, support services, furlough transportations, and Auto Allowances [when available].
We commit to you, our faithful Giving Friends, that we will administer your offerings as wisely, prudently, and cost-effectively as God enables us. But, we cannot disburse beyond our means. If we have made commitments to our missionaries, and the funds are not available to meet those commitments, then we must tell them we don't have the wherewithal to do it.
The missionaries may be asking you from time to time to help supply for them from your designated offerings some of the commitments we have made to them from the General Fund, but which may not be available to give them.
ALL OF YOUR OFFERINGS ARE BEING USED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST, AND ESTABLISH BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. You have no better investment for your money.
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