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Mission
Offerings
First Baptist Church is a very mission-minded church. We give 13% of
all undesignated funds to Southern Baptist missions through the
Cooperative Program. This comes to $166,000 in the year 2007. The
Cooperative Program is a unified budget that supports Georgia
ministry and missions and Baptist colleges, health care centers,
children's homes and retirement centers in Georgia, and also
supports the International Mission Board, North American Mission
Board, Southern Baptist seminaries, the Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission and other Southern Baptist causes. In addition to the
Cooperative Program, the fourth Sunday of every month, we promote
direct giving to missions through our Acts 1:8 Missions Offering,
which is divided 55% to international missions, 25% to North
American missions, 10% to Georgia state missions and 10% to Savannah
association missions.
Mission
Education
We have mission education organizations for men and women, boys and
girls. The Men's Ministry has its breakfast meeting the fourth
Sunday of each month, and they also sponsor Royal Ambassadors (RA's)
for boys grades 1-5, which meet each Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. The
Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) has four women's groups that meet
once a month: WMU Day Group, WMU Night Group, Moms and Missions (M &
M's), and Baptist Young Women (BYW). The WMU also sponsors two
children's groups that meet Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.: Girls in Action
(GA's) for girls in grades 1-5, and Mission Friends for
preschoolers.
Personal
Mission Involvement
But giving money and learning about missions is not enough. The
Great Commission that Jesus gave in Matthew 28:18-20 says that each
of us must be personally involved in missions. From starting a new
mission church in the Ebenezer community here in Effingham County,
to sponsoring mission trips, to doing acts of kindness and local
evangelism through F.A.I.T.H. training, we are personally involved
in supporting and doing missions.
Mission Partnerships and
Trips
Policemen to share their faith with Christian policemen and meet
Baptists in Colombes. See the church website at
http://www.cep-colombes.org
Senior adult mission
trip to New Orleans February 26, - March 2, 2011. Senior adults to
repair homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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