HAROLD DRAPER’S SISTER GOES HOME TO HEAVEN
Many of you are aware that Brother Harold Draper’s sister, Una Jean Richards, has been battling leukemia for many months and has been in critical condition for the past few weeks.
She went home to be with our Lord early Friday morning.
A short obituary may be found at:
http://www.paducahsun.com/articles/stories/public/200909/26/aLLb_obituari.html
Her arrangements are through Milner and Orr Funeral Home in Arlington KY
http://www.milnerandorrfuneralhomes.com/
All of her services will be conducted at Beulah Baptist Church in Fancy Farm KY:
8037 State Route 307 North,
Fancy Farm, KY, 42039
[270-623-8493]
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fancy-Farm-KY/Beulah-Baptist-Church/93168094862
Friends may call after 5:00 pm CST at the church and Brother Draper will be conducting the memorial service at 11:00 am CST at Beulah.
Please continue your prayers for Brother Draper and all their family during these times.
Here are the ways you can correspond with Brother Draper:
P.O. Box 395, Bardwell KY 42023
270.628.9517
hmdubdbr@yahoo.com
Monday / 28 September 2009 / 11:00 pm
NEWS ABOUT UNA RICHARDS’S FUNERAL
Dear Bro. Parks,
All went well at the funeral of my sister Una Richards. On Sunday evening more than 700 people filed past the casket to pay respects to her and comfort the family. Today the Lord gave me grace, and I was able to preach the Gospel to hundreds of people. Many there were saved, and no doubt not a few were not saved. Ursula and I are very tired tonight. We appreciate so much the E-mails and phone calls offering condolences.
Harold & Ursula Draper
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
URGENT APPEAL ON BEHALF OF OUR MISSIONARIES
URGENT NEEDS AND APPEALS TO EVERY GIVING FRIEND
OF BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS MISSIONARIES
I must make an urgent appeal to you on behalf of our missionaries.
Please read this carefully and prayerfully and respond immediately.
WE HAVE TWO URGENT NEEDS
REQUIRING IMMEDIATE RESPONSE
[1] INCREASED MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS
I have received the report of the August offerings and am processing our missionaries’ monthly deposits as I write. FOR THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW [August and September], WE WILL BE REQUIRED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT DEDUCTIONS FROM EACH OF THEIR SEPTEMBER DEPOSITS.
I have detailed in the August issue of the Mission Sheets [and posting here] how we must balance our Essential Maintenance Transactions [EMT, or TIER 1] disbursements to our missionaries each month with our General Fund Offerings for that month. We call this MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY.
If the General Fund Offerings for that month don’t supply the Essential Maintenance Transactions disbursements for that month, then we must reduce the missionaries’ total deposits for that month by the amount we lack.
Let me give you some ‘bottom lines’ for September’s deposits: after I have calculated ALL the General Fund receipts from August’s offerings [including offerings which are given to the missionaries by name designated ‘salary’ or ‘support’] THERE IS STILL A DEFICIT OF $8465.99 WHICH MUST BE MADE UP BY MAKING ADDITIONAL PROPORTIONAL DEDUCTIONS FROM EACH MISSIONARY’S TOTAL DEPOSIT FOR THAT MONTH. This way, each missionary makes the same PROPORTIONAL contribution, but not the same AMOUNT of contribution.
So, just by using September as an example, IF WE – ALL OF US TOGETHER - HAD GIVEN AN ADDITIONAL $8500.00 TO THE GENERAL FUND DURING AUGUST, OUR MISSIONARIES WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THEIR STANDARD MODEST COMMITMENTS FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
THE OTHER COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO THEM [PRN or ‘AS NEEDED’ / TIER 2 COMMITMENTS] ARE SUPPLIED FROM WHATEVER IS LEFT IN THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING FUNDS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR’S OFFERING. This is the only way we can make it through the year with the funds we have to work with. I think we will make it through the next 3 months with what we have left in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering.
[2] $100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING
EACH OF OUR GIVING FRIENDS IN ALL OF OUR CHURCHES MUST MAKE A COMMITMENT TO THE LORD AND OUR MISSIONARIES TO GIVE AN EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS THANKSGIVING OFFERING. If everyone of us will ask the Lord of the Harvest what portion He wants us to do and give – I am confident HE WILL SUPPLY THROUGH US WHAT HE WANTS OUR MISSIONARIES TO HAVE TO DO THE PORTION OF THE WORKS THEY ARE DOING.
We can do this by the Grace God will supply us – but each one of us must make the commitment to:
[1] PARTICIPATE, 2 Cor 8.1-5, 12; 9.7
[2] PRAY to God to supply you with an offering, 2 Cor 9.8-15. You can be sure that those who are receiving the benefit of your offerings are certainly praying on your behalf!
[3] PLAN how you will lay it aside, 1 Cor 16.1-2
[4] PREPARE your offerings according to your plan. In other words, ‘PLAN your work and WORK your plan’, 2 Cor 9.5.
[5] PERFORM THE DOING OF IT. Follow through! 2 Cor 8.10-11.
NIKE! You know the NIKE footwear’s familiar sales slogan: ‘JUST DO IT!’ That’s what we need to do: ‘JUST DO IT!’ By the way, NIKE is a Greek word that means VICTORY. This form of the word is found one time in the New Testament, in 1 John 5.4: ‘And this is the VICTORY that has overcome the world – OUR FAITH!’ We can – and will – enjoy VICTORY over all these needs if we will JUST DO WHAT WE KNOW TO DO TO ACHIEVE THE VICTORY...TRUSTING GOD TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
ONE MORE APPEAL FOR OUR
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
Each one of us should either begin giving to the MONTHLY GENERAL FUND according to these same steps – or, if you are already a MONTHLY GIVING FRIEND, follow these steps to INCREASE YOUR MONTHLY GIVING TO THE GENERAL FUND.
OF BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS MISSIONARIES
I must make an urgent appeal to you on behalf of our missionaries.
Please read this carefully and prayerfully and respond immediately.
WE HAVE TWO URGENT NEEDS
REQUIRING IMMEDIATE RESPONSE
[1] INCREASED MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS
I have received the report of the August offerings and am processing our missionaries’ monthly deposits as I write. FOR THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW [August and September], WE WILL BE REQUIRED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT DEDUCTIONS FROM EACH OF THEIR SEPTEMBER DEPOSITS.
I have detailed in the August issue of the Mission Sheets [and posting here] how we must balance our Essential Maintenance Transactions [EMT, or TIER 1] disbursements to our missionaries each month with our General Fund Offerings for that month. We call this MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY.
If the General Fund Offerings for that month don’t supply the Essential Maintenance Transactions disbursements for that month, then we must reduce the missionaries’ total deposits for that month by the amount we lack.
Let me give you some ‘bottom lines’ for September’s deposits: after I have calculated ALL the General Fund receipts from August’s offerings [including offerings which are given to the missionaries by name designated ‘salary’ or ‘support’] THERE IS STILL A DEFICIT OF $8465.99 WHICH MUST BE MADE UP BY MAKING ADDITIONAL PROPORTIONAL DEDUCTIONS FROM EACH MISSIONARY’S TOTAL DEPOSIT FOR THAT MONTH. This way, each missionary makes the same PROPORTIONAL contribution, but not the same AMOUNT of contribution.
So, just by using September as an example, IF WE – ALL OF US TOGETHER - HAD GIVEN AN ADDITIONAL $8500.00 TO THE GENERAL FUND DURING AUGUST, OUR MISSIONARIES WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THEIR STANDARD MODEST COMMITMENTS FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
THE OTHER COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO THEM [PRN or ‘AS NEEDED’ / TIER 2 COMMITMENTS] ARE SUPPLIED FROM WHATEVER IS LEFT IN THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING FUNDS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR’S OFFERING. This is the only way we can make it through the year with the funds we have to work with. I think we will make it through the next 3 months with what we have left in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering.
[2] $100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING
EACH OF OUR GIVING FRIENDS IN ALL OF OUR CHURCHES MUST MAKE A COMMITMENT TO THE LORD AND OUR MISSIONARIES TO GIVE AN EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS THANKSGIVING OFFERING. If everyone of us will ask the Lord of the Harvest what portion He wants us to do and give – I am confident HE WILL SUPPLY THROUGH US WHAT HE WANTS OUR MISSIONARIES TO HAVE TO DO THE PORTION OF THE WORKS THEY ARE DOING.
We can do this by the Grace God will supply us – but each one of us must make the commitment to:
[1] PARTICIPATE, 2 Cor 8.1-5, 12; 9.7
[2] PRAY to God to supply you with an offering, 2 Cor 9.8-15. You can be sure that those who are receiving the benefit of your offerings are certainly praying on your behalf!
[3] PLAN how you will lay it aside, 1 Cor 16.1-2
[4] PREPARE your offerings according to your plan. In other words, ‘PLAN your work and WORK your plan’, 2 Cor 9.5.
[5] PERFORM THE DOING OF IT. Follow through! 2 Cor 8.10-11.
NIKE! You know the NIKE footwear’s familiar sales slogan: ‘JUST DO IT!’ That’s what we need to do: ‘JUST DO IT!’ By the way, NIKE is a Greek word that means VICTORY. This form of the word is found one time in the New Testament, in 1 John 5.4: ‘And this is the VICTORY that has overcome the world – OUR FAITH!’ We can – and will – enjoy VICTORY over all these needs if we will JUST DO WHAT WE KNOW TO DO TO ACHIEVE THE VICTORY...TRUSTING GOD TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
ONE MORE APPEAL FOR OUR
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
Each one of us should either begin giving to the MONTHLY GENERAL FUND according to these same steps – or, if you are already a MONTHLY GIVING FRIEND, follow these steps to INCREASE YOUR MONTHLY GIVING TO THE GENERAL FUND.
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