Missions

Missions

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 mission trip to Colombes, near Paris, France, April 9-16, 2008. 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 April 28-May 3, 2008. Senior adults to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Vacation Bible School mission trip to Cleveland, Ohio July 21-25, 2008.

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