JUNE UPDATES

2010-11 THANKSGIVING OFFERING  |  GOAL:  $100,000.00

During the month of May, you gave an additional $470.00 to the current Thanksgiving Offering, bringing our accrued total to $63,269.27.  Thank you!  “For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God.” [2 Corinthians 9:12]

THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS ALWAYS OPEN!

2011 THANKSGIVING OFFERING

We also encourage you to begin planning right now for your 2011-12 THANKSGIVING OFFERING.  Purpose in your heart what you believe the Lord wants you to give [2 Corinthians 9:7] and begin asking the Lord to supply you with those offerings so you can give them.  2 Corinthians 9:8 promises that “God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”  God is ABLE…and God is FAITHFUL.  Lay it aside month by month in anticipation of this coming November so you will have it to give at that time.

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“THANK YOU! THANK YOU!” GIVING FRIENDS

And especially to each one of you who gives so regularly, faithfully, and generously to our GENERAL FUND.  Your May offerings are reported in this month’s Mission Sheets.  We bless and thank God for each contributor.  We use these Offerings Reports as our THANKSGIVING LIST to God.  We thank God for you by name.  We don’t know some of you by name because you give anonymously – but God knows who you are.  But, regardless of how you choose to identify yourself, EVERY ONE OF YOU IS A ‘GIVING FRIEND’, and WE BLESS GOD FOR YOU!  You are a great encouragement to your missionaries – and you also inspire others to give by your challenging example.

YOU ARE THE ONES WHO CARRY US FROM MONTH TO MONTH.  Please know how grateful we are to God for you.

If you are not giving personal offerings to the monthly General Fund, WILL YOU COMMIT RIGHT NOW – THIS MONTH – TO DO SO?  We really need for each one of us to make the personal commitment to give regular monthly offerings to our General Fund.  I am certain that, if you begin with this commitment, not only will the Lord honor your purpose of heart, but He will also supply YOUR needs so you can give to His servants’ needs.

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WILL YOU GIVE AT LEAST $1 A DAY FOR WORLDWIDE MISSIONS?

I know that many of you are giving much more than that – but if you are not giving a personal offering each month to our GENERAL FUND to help maintain our missionaries’ essential needs, will you ask the Lord to supply you with a regular monthly offering of $30 to our GENERAL FUND?  Together we can provide them with the funds by which they can continue their daily ministries.

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PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU CONTIBUTE TO THE GENERAL FUND, YOU ARE HELPING TO SUPPLY THE ESSENTIAL MONTHLY NEEDS FOR TWELVE FAITHFUL MISSIONARY FAMILIES. Our monthly GENERAL FUND is used to provide equitably for the standard commitments we have made to the missionaries who are supported through BFM.

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OUR MISSIONARIES’ MONTHLY NEEDS HAVE INCREASED

The ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS [Tier 1] to supply our missionaries’ standard monthly commitments have increased just this month.  Included in those monthly commitments is the hospitalization premiums we provide for them.  The total monthly premiums increased by another $1,131.81 beginning in June.  The total monthly premium is now $11,075.93.

When combined with their monthly salaries [$20,426.00], standard monthly housing and ministry allowances [$10,950.00], and the costs of producing and distributing these Mission Sheets [$1,622.50], the total monthly commitments is $44,074.43.  These disbursements to them MUST be supplied by our monthly GENERAL FUND offerings.

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YOU CAN NOW CONTRIBUTE TO BFM VIA CREDIT CARD

As the old Toyota commercial jingle used to say: “YOU ASKED FOR IT – YOU GOT IT!”  You have asked us to allow you to contribute via your credit card.  Go to our website www.baptistfaithmissions.org and click on “Donate/Support” and use this added feature.  Some of you have already begun to give this way, and we thank you!

1 Samuel 25.17

Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…


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