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.
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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.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
DECEMBER 2008 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
Our Thanksgiving Offering total is: $23,948.00
That includes all the offerings received by the close of November and listed in this issue of the Mission Sheets – 23 offerings to date. We bless God and thank each of you who has given. Others have sent in your offerings this current month and will be added to next month’s update. THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING WILL REMAIN OPEN AS LONG AS YOU GIVE. There is no “expiration date” for giving to the Thanksgiving Offering.
If you have not given to our Thanksgiving Offering, we hope you will do so. No one should think that your offering is too small to be significant. NO OFFERING IS TOO SMALL. And our need for your most generous Thanksgiving Offering you can give has never been more critical than it is now.
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$50,000 MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
I am frequently asked: “What is BFM’s greatest need?” The answer is always: “THE GENERAL FUND!” Our 14 missionary families depend on commitments we have made to them from General Fund supplies.
When you support the GENERAL FUND, you are contributing to the salaries, housing, ministry expenses, health care, furlough travel expenses, and other commitments we have made to them. All of these standard commitments are “big ticket items”. Every month we disburse from the GENERAL FUND for the benefit of our missionaries: $23,860.00 for salaries; $12,400.00 for standard expense accounts; $8500.00 for insurance premiums as well as other support services and benefits [like the printing of the Mission Sheets you are reading right now]. ALL OF THESE DISBURSEMENTS, MODEST AS THEY ARE, ARE SUPPLIED FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
When you give to the GENERAL FUND, you are enabling them to serve the Lord daily where they are without the distraction of wondering whether their essential basic needs will be met to keep them on the field.
If you are not giving to the GENERAL FUND, we hope you will commit to giving a monthly offering so we can meet their needs. If you are giving to the GENERAL FUND, would you consider increasing your offering as you are able. TOGETHER, WE CAN DO IT!
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POSSIBLE REDUCTIONS TO OUR MISSIONARIES’ MONTHLY DEPOSITS
If we are not able to meet the standard, essential financial commitments we have made to our missionaries from monthly GENERAL FUND offerings, we will have no choice but to reduce their monthly deposits proportionately to the shortfall in that month’s GENERAL FUND contributions. That means we will necessarily ask each one of them to bear a proportionate share of the total deficit between that month’s GENERAL FUND offerings and the disbursements those offerings supply. We can’t disburse funds we don’t have.
WE HAVE DONE...AND ARE DOING...EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO AVOID COMING TO THAT POINT. THIS IS THE ACTION THAT WE MOST DREAD. Our missionaries cannot afford to do without any of the commitments we have made to them. They already struggle with the challenge of making their personal/family/ministry ends meet on their present budgets, compounded by the continual rise in their costs of living, decrease of the dollar’s value against their field currency, and the fluctuating exchange rates they deal with.
HELP THEM THIS MONTH WITH YOUR INCREASED OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND!
God bless you, all our missionaries’ Giving Friends!
That includes all the offerings received by the close of November and listed in this issue of the Mission Sheets – 23 offerings to date. We bless God and thank each of you who has given. Others have sent in your offerings this current month and will be added to next month’s update. THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING WILL REMAIN OPEN AS LONG AS YOU GIVE. There is no “expiration date” for giving to the Thanksgiving Offering.
If you have not given to our Thanksgiving Offering, we hope you will do so. No one should think that your offering is too small to be significant. NO OFFERING IS TOO SMALL. And our need for your most generous Thanksgiving Offering you can give has never been more critical than it is now.
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$50,000 MONTHLY SOLVENCY GOAL
I am frequently asked: “What is BFM’s greatest need?” The answer is always: “THE GENERAL FUND!” Our 14 missionary families depend on commitments we have made to them from General Fund supplies.
When you support the GENERAL FUND, you are contributing to the salaries, housing, ministry expenses, health care, furlough travel expenses, and other commitments we have made to them. All of these standard commitments are “big ticket items”. Every month we disburse from the GENERAL FUND for the benefit of our missionaries: $23,860.00 for salaries; $12,400.00 for standard expense accounts; $8500.00 for insurance premiums as well as other support services and benefits [like the printing of the Mission Sheets you are reading right now]. ALL OF THESE DISBURSEMENTS, MODEST AS THEY ARE, ARE SUPPLIED FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
When you give to the GENERAL FUND, you are enabling them to serve the Lord daily where they are without the distraction of wondering whether their essential basic needs will be met to keep them on the field.
If you are not giving to the GENERAL FUND, we hope you will commit to giving a monthly offering so we can meet their needs. If you are giving to the GENERAL FUND, would you consider increasing your offering as you are able. TOGETHER, WE CAN DO IT!
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POSSIBLE REDUCTIONS TO OUR MISSIONARIES’ MONTHLY DEPOSITS
If we are not able to meet the standard, essential financial commitments we have made to our missionaries from monthly GENERAL FUND offerings, we will have no choice but to reduce their monthly deposits proportionately to the shortfall in that month’s GENERAL FUND contributions. That means we will necessarily ask each one of them to bear a proportionate share of the total deficit between that month’s GENERAL FUND offerings and the disbursements those offerings supply. We can’t disburse funds we don’t have.
WE HAVE DONE...AND ARE DOING...EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO AVOID COMING TO THAT POINT. THIS IS THE ACTION THAT WE MOST DREAD. Our missionaries cannot afford to do without any of the commitments we have made to them. They already struggle with the challenge of making their personal/family/ministry ends meet on their present budgets, compounded by the continual rise in their costs of living, decrease of the dollar’s value against their field currency, and the fluctuating exchange rates they deal with.
HELP THEM THIS MONTH WITH YOUR INCREASED OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND!
God bless you, all our missionaries’ Giving Friends!
"THANK YOU!" GIVING FRIENDS!
“THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!” We don't say that often enough, but we want to be sure you know how much we appreciate your faithful support for our missionaries. AND ESPECIALLY TO ALL OF YOU WHO FAITHFULLY AND CONSISTENTLY GIVE TO THE GENERAL FUND – THANK YOU! We need and appreciate ALL your offerings to our missionaries...but your offerings to the General Fund keep our missionaries on their fields of ministry. Our General Fund offerings supply our missionaries’ “DAILY BREAD” - “BREAD & BUTTER” – “SIMPLE BARE NECESSITIES” – “KEEP THE LIGHTS ON” – how else can we say it to emphasize how fundamentally essential it is to supply the GENERAL FUND with sufficient offerings to meet our missionaries’ essential living and ministry expenses.
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY: $50,000.00
WE STILL NEED INCREASED OFFERINGS TO OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND. We disburse $50,000.00 each month in standard commitments we have made to our missionaries. EVERY MONTH - MONTH AFTER MONTH – OUR MISSIONARIES EXPECT US TO PROVIDE THESE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE PROMISED THEM. We struggle every day of every month to “pay the bills” and meet the basic, essential commitments of salaries, expense accounts, and all the other standard benefits, and support services we have told them we will provide for them.
WE ARE NOT RECEIVING SUFFICIENT MATCHING OFFERINGS FOR THE STANDARD MONTHLY DISBURSEMENTS WE MAKE EACH MONTH. We need every one of our missionaries' Giving Friends to make a personal, proportionate, perpetual commitment to give to the GENERAL FUND each month.
WE CAN MAKE OUR MONTHLY STANDARD GENERAL FUND DISBURSEMENTS SOLVENT IF EVERY ONE OF US DOES A PART. You can check our progress with us simply by looking at the Contributions page in this and every issue of the Mission Sheets. Look for the total given to the GENERAL FUND. That is what we have to work with to provide for our missionaries' essential, basic, daily needs.
WE ARE ALL OUR MISSIONARIES HAVE TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT – as the Lord Himself works through us by His own Grace, of course.
$100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL
Again, "THANK YOU!" to every one of you who has given to our Thanksgiving Offering over the years of our BFM history – and who are giving your offerings again this year. We have come this far BY FAITH – BY THE GRACE OF GOD – AND BY YOUR FAITHFUL COMMITMENT AND GENEROSITY!
Ordinarily, the bulk of our Thanksgiving Offering is given during the months of November and December. ASK THE LORD TO GIVE YOU A GENEROUS HELPING OF GRACE TO GIVE TO OUR MISSIONARIES.
Make a PERSONAL, PROPORTIONATE contribution to our Thanksgiving Offering. [See 2 Corinthians 8.12-14] IF YOU SEE THAT WE ARE NOT REACHING OUR GOAL WE NEED TO GIVE, THEN GIVE AGAIN SO WE CAN FULFILL THE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES. The Thanksgiving Offering giving opportunity is open as long as you are giving.
2009 Needs
We will need the Thanksgiving Offering funds to help us meet our monthly deficits as 2009 unfolds IF WE DON'T MEET OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY GOAL.
Pending Disbursements
Also, we still have several thousands of dollars in benefits commitments we have made to our missionaries – but which are still pending and unpaid because we didn't have the funds during the year to pay them. So, the missionaries are still carrying that personal expense themselves. WE NEED TO FULFILL THAT COMMITMENT WE MADE TO THEM AND REIMBURSE THEM.
The standard commitments we make to our missionaries are still, at the very best we are doing, only very modest disbursements. All of our services and benefits should be increased, but we can't even think about increasing them if we are not meeting the commitments we have already made.
We are praying and asking the Lord to burden each of our hearts to join this worthy giving ministry – so our missionaries' needs will be met…so they can fund their daily ministry activities…so the Gospel of Christ can be proclaimed in all the nations of the world…so more people will be saved from their sins and discipled to follow Jesus Christ…and so THE GLORY OF CHRIST WILL COVER THE EARTH AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA!
Now, therefore, KNOW...and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO!
1 Samuel 25.17
Grace – including Giving Grace – be with you all!
The Directors of Baptist Faith Missions
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY: $50,000.00
WE STILL NEED INCREASED OFFERINGS TO OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND. We disburse $50,000.00 each month in standard commitments we have made to our missionaries. EVERY MONTH - MONTH AFTER MONTH – OUR MISSIONARIES EXPECT US TO PROVIDE THESE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE PROMISED THEM. We struggle every day of every month to “pay the bills” and meet the basic, essential commitments of salaries, expense accounts, and all the other standard benefits, and support services we have told them we will provide for them.
WE ARE NOT RECEIVING SUFFICIENT MATCHING OFFERINGS FOR THE STANDARD MONTHLY DISBURSEMENTS WE MAKE EACH MONTH. We need every one of our missionaries' Giving Friends to make a personal, proportionate, perpetual commitment to give to the GENERAL FUND each month.
WE CAN MAKE OUR MONTHLY STANDARD GENERAL FUND DISBURSEMENTS SOLVENT IF EVERY ONE OF US DOES A PART. You can check our progress with us simply by looking at the Contributions page in this and every issue of the Mission Sheets. Look for the total given to the GENERAL FUND. That is what we have to work with to provide for our missionaries' essential, basic, daily needs.
WE ARE ALL OUR MISSIONARIES HAVE TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT – as the Lord Himself works through us by His own Grace, of course.
$100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL
Again, "THANK YOU!" to every one of you who has given to our Thanksgiving Offering over the years of our BFM history – and who are giving your offerings again this year. We have come this far BY FAITH – BY THE GRACE OF GOD – AND BY YOUR FAITHFUL COMMITMENT AND GENEROSITY!
Ordinarily, the bulk of our Thanksgiving Offering is given during the months of November and December. ASK THE LORD TO GIVE YOU A GENEROUS HELPING OF GRACE TO GIVE TO OUR MISSIONARIES.
Make a PERSONAL, PROPORTIONATE contribution to our Thanksgiving Offering. [See 2 Corinthians 8.12-14] IF YOU SEE THAT WE ARE NOT REACHING OUR GOAL WE NEED TO GIVE, THEN GIVE AGAIN SO WE CAN FULFILL THE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES. The Thanksgiving Offering giving opportunity is open as long as you are giving.
2009 Needs
We will need the Thanksgiving Offering funds to help us meet our monthly deficits as 2009 unfolds IF WE DON'T MEET OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY GOAL.
Pending Disbursements
Also, we still have several thousands of dollars in benefits commitments we have made to our missionaries – but which are still pending and unpaid because we didn't have the funds during the year to pay them. So, the missionaries are still carrying that personal expense themselves. WE NEED TO FULFILL THAT COMMITMENT WE MADE TO THEM AND REIMBURSE THEM.
The standard commitments we make to our missionaries are still, at the very best we are doing, only very modest disbursements. All of our services and benefits should be increased, but we can't even think about increasing them if we are not meeting the commitments we have already made.
We are praying and asking the Lord to burden each of our hearts to join this worthy giving ministry – so our missionaries' needs will be met…so they can fund their daily ministry activities…so the Gospel of Christ can be proclaimed in all the nations of the world…so more people will be saved from their sins and discipled to follow Jesus Christ…and so THE GLORY OF CHRIST WILL COVER THE EARTH AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA!
Now, therefore, KNOW...and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO!
1 Samuel 25.17
Grace – including Giving Grace – be with you all!
The Directors of Baptist Faith Missions
Friday, August 8, 2008
AUGUST 2008 UPDATE
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]
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]
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!
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