Last week I wrote about budget offerings going to missions. At the end of year, we adopt a budget for our church. These are all the anticipated funds needed for all of our normal operation, staffing, maintenance, ministries, etc. When we are reaching our budget, all of these areas can be fully funded, so we encourage people to give their offerings to our budget. In addition to our own “in-house” expenses to fulfill the ministries of Hillcrest, just over 10% of these funds go to missions. We fund those a couple of different ways which I won’t go into here, but a portion of your funds go to state, national and international missions. These funds go to support church starts, some of our Baptist schools, children’s homes, and missionaries here in the U.S. A significant portion of that 10% goes to support the SBC’s 4,500 or so foreign missionaries scattered all around the world. So when you give your offerings, they have impact from inside our own doors to all around the world.
About 3 times a year, we have special offerings. Right now it is the Annie Armstrong offering. This offering is for mission work in North America. I don’t know any organization that has enough money to do everything they want to do, and our mission organizations are no different. Although the NAMB receives funds from our normal giving, this special offering allows an emphasis to give additional funds directly to this cause.
Question: If God were to answer all your prayers regarding HBC and its ministries, would it be any more effective than it is now?
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