NOVEMBER UPDATES

2010 BFM WINTER CONFERENCE
JANUARY 17, 18, 19, 20 [Sunday-Wednesday]
Conference Theme: “GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE”
Park Ridge Baptist Church, Gotha FL [Orlando area]
For more information:
Pastor Ben Glover / 407.719.9861 / bentonglover@aol.com

Plan to spend your Winter Break with us – sharing Missions fellowship and promoting the interests of our Missionaries!

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MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS / SOLVENCY

“WE URGENTLY NEED AN IMMEDIATE & CONSISTENT INCREASE OF AT LEAST $15,000 TO OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS!”

I hope you will read all our missionaries’ letters. They are not complaining – our missionaries never complain – but they do need to tell you how their ministry activities are suffering because we are having to reduce our monthly disbursements to them. THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING PORTIONS OF THEIR MONTHLY DEPOSITS TO HELP MAKE UP THE MONTHLY DEFICITS WE ARE INCURRING BETWEEN THE MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND AND THE MONTHLY COMMITMENTS/DISBURSEMENTS WE MAKE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND.

It has reached a critical-mass point. For the past 3 months, we have made significant deductions from the very commitments we have made to our missionaries.

In other words, I HAVE CALCULATED THE STANDARD DISBURSEMENTS WE HAVE COMMITTED TO GIVE THEM BY THE MONTH…AND THEN, WHEN WE DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS TO MEET THOSE COMMITMENTS, WE TOOK BACK PART OF THE COMMITMENT TO MAKE IT BALANCE OUT!

HERE ARE THE COLD, HARD NUMBERS:
AUGUST: $5075.05
SEPTEMBER: $8465.99
OCTOBER: $6273.47

These amounts are the ADDITIONAL TOTAL DEDUCTIONS I TOOK FROM THEIR MONTHLY DEPOSIT CALCULATIONS BEFORE I MADE THEIR DISBURSEMENTS. Proportional amounts were deducted from each missionary’s deposit to make up the total amount.

Look again this month. The General Fund Offerings is $26,905.09.

THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! FOR THIS OFFERING!

But, the Tier 1 [Essential Maintenance Transactions / EMT] disbursements we will make to our missionaries THIS MONTH are $47,065.58.

That is the STANDARD MONTHLY DISBURSEMENTS AMOUNT
EACH MONTH for:
salaries [$23,860.00]
standard expense allowances [$12,450.00]
hospitalization premiums [$9133.08]
and Mission Sheets publication [$1622.50].

WE MUST IMMEDIATELY AND CONSISTENTLY INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS BY AT LEAST $15,000.00 to meet these every-month essential, standard commitment / disbursements.

DO WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP THEM. NO GENERAL FUND OFFERING IS TOO SMALL OR INSIGNIFICANT.

HERE’S WHAT EACH ONE OF US CAN DO!
I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY OF US THERE ARE OUT THERE – I’m talking about all of us GIVING FRIENDS.

Let’s just play with some numbers.

Let’s say there are 100 of us churches who are committed to helping our missionaries.

Let’s say that in each of these 100 churches there are 30 GIVING FRIENDS. [We are praying for many more.] That would be 3,000 GIVING FRIENDS.

Let’s say each of us 3,000 GIVING FRIENDS gave an extra $5.00 in December toward the General Fund offering – THAT’S RIGHT, OUR MISSIONARIES’ NEEDS WOULD BE MET!

Some of us can give more. Our missionaries need all the help we can give them.

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HELP US MEET OUR $100,000 GOAL FOR OUR THANKSGIVING OFFERING
We are carefully budgeting last year’s Thanksgiving Offering to make it last through 2009. WE NEED AND USE THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING TO MEET ALL THE OTHER COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES WHICH ARE SUPPLIED FROM GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.

Every one of us should give as generous and sacrificial offering as we can to meet this goal.