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For Southern Baptists, the month of December is a time to focus on international missions and, specifically, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering! It is an awesome thing to think about 47,000 Southern Baptist churches from all over America coming together to give $205 MILLION (this year’s goal) to take the Gospel to the nations. Wow. That makes me humbly proud to be a Southern Baptist.
Did you know that through the ministry of the International Mission Board, Southern Baptists deploy over 3,600 missionaries to the foreign mission field? These men and women are on the front lines of the Great Commission; they are our heroes! (See photo.) By the grace of God and through the efforts of these missionaries (and the prayers and gifts of those who sent them), over 100,000 professions of faith were made in the last reporting year and over 20,000 new congregations were planted. Praise God!
Noted missionary to India, William Carey, once famously told a supporter, “I will go down into the pit, but you must hold the ropes.” Will you join me in holding the ropes for our wonderful missionaries? Will you make a prayerful and generous financial gift to this year’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering through your local church? I can think of no better way to invest one’s treasure than to send the gospel to those who have never heard.
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