MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY

We continue to reach and strive toward the goal of MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY for our standard monthly General Fund disbursements.

We disburse an average of $50,000 per month for all the General Fund commitments and services required to maintain our missionaries and their ministries.

DESIGNATED OFFERINGS ARE NOT APPLIED TO GENERAL FUND USES. Designated offerings are ‘pre-addressed’ by the contributor and are ‘forwarded’ to the missionaries for the designated intended use.

But, when and if MONTHLY GENERAL FUND offerings supply our missionaries’ essential, standard financial needs, then we can consider using the Thanksgiving Offering to increase the modest commitments we are disbursing to them now.

THE GREATEST NEED BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONARIES HAVE AT THIS TIME IS OUR CONSISTENT, COMMITTED, AND COOPERATIVE INCREASES OF OUR OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.

Baptist Faith Missions strives to function on the principles of:
EFFECTIVENESS,
EFFICIENCY,
and EQUALITY – that is, “what we do for one missionary, we do for all”.

That is the beauty and benefit of the GENERAL FUND / non-deputation principle.

We ask each of our Giving Friends to join us in this RESOLUTION: “Resolved, that I will commit to increase my own personal giving, and our church’s offerings to the BFM General Fund, so that our missionaries’ needs will be supplied and that Christ’s Name will be more widely proclaimed throughout the nations of the world.”

“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…” [1 Samuel 25.17]

Habakkuk 2.14: “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”
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A GLARING INGLORIOUS NUMBER: $19,814.51
This amount is the total of ACCRUED ADDITIONAL DEDUCTIONS from our missionaries’ monthly deposits we had to make over three months of 2009 [August-October].

We made these additional deductions because we didn’t receive enough Monthly General Fund Offerings to cover the standard disbursements we made to our missionaries – and we didn’t have adequate funds in the remaining Thanksgiving Offering to supply those months’ deficits.

So, for those three months, what we did was to calculate their monthly deposits according to our standard commitments we make to them – and then, when the funds were not available to make those disbursements, WE WENT BACK AND TOOK BACK SOME OF THE DEPOSIT AMOUNT UNTIL IT MATCHED THE AVAILABLE FUNDS WE HAD TO MAKE THAT DEPOSIT.

WE CAN AVOID HAVING TO DO THAT EVER AGAIN BY INCREASING OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.