LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING HITS CUMULATIVE $5 BILLION
By Myriah Snyder IMB senior writer/editor International Mission Board leaders are celebrating a monumental milestone in Southern Baptist life: On March 31, 2021, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® surpassed $5 billion total gifts since collection to send missionaries to China began in 1888. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an annual offering collected by believers […]
IMB NEHEMIAH TEAMS LAUNCH GAP YEAR PROGRAM
Baptist Press RICHMOND — The International Mission Board’s Nehemiah Teams program is providing opportunities for students to do something eternal with their “gap year.” More and more students are choosing to take a year to pursue other interests – travel, experiencing new cultures, gaining life experience, volunteering – before starting college. Nehemiah Teams offers summer […]
‘BIBLICAL DIVERSITY DISCUSSION AT IMB WILL CONTINUE,’ CHITWOOD SAYS
By Catherine Finch Baptist Press RICHMOND – As part of its February emphasis on racial diversity in missions, the International Mission Board hosted a panel discussion called “The Future of Missions: Why Biblical Diversity Matters” Feb. 25. The conversation, which was streamed on Facebook and through the IMB: Advance the Kingdom app, will be ongoing, […]
IMB APPOINTS 30 MISSIONARIES
RICHMOND — International Mission Board trustees unanimously approved the appointment of 30 full-time, fully funded missionary personnel during their Feb. 3-4 meeting, and trustees applauded a report that cumulative international mission offerings have nearly reached a historic $5 billion. The new missionaries will be sent to eight of IMB’s nine global affinities. A recent Sending […]
PERSPECTIVE ON THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Messengers from across the Southern Baptist Convention will travel to Music City in June (COVID-permitting) for their annual meeting to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. The last time the SBC annual meeting was held in Nashville in 2005 , it drew 11,641 […]
AFRICAN AMERICAN MISSIONARIES HONORED BY IMB
IMB staff RICHMOND — The International Mission Board is celebrating the ongoing and indelible legacy of African Americans who have served and are serving on the mission field. IMB President Paul Chitwood says as the organization reflects on its history, Southern Baptists must be quick to confess the organization began with roots in slavery. “Only […]
A SIMPLE FORMULA FOR REACHING LOTTIE MOON GOAL
By Paul Chitwood President, International Mission Board The 2020 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal is $175 million. That number is significant because 2020 marks the 175th anniversary of Southern Baptists sending workers to the nations. The annual offering makes up almost 60 percent of the International Mission Board’s revenue and helps to support 3,535 missionaries […]
IMB MISSIONARIES AND STAFF GIVE MORE THAN $800,000 TO LMCO
By Ann Lovell IMB internal communications director IMB missionaries and staff pledged $802,700 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering through an internal campaign that began Sept. 23 and ended Nov. 30. The campaign, which allowed missionaries and U.S.-based staff to make their pledges confidentially, indicates their high level of commitment to the Revelation 7:9 vision […]
IMB MISSIONARIES AND STAFF GIVE MORE THAN $800,000 TO LMCO
By Ann Lovell IMB internal communications director IMB missionaries and staff pledged $802,700 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering through an internal campaign that began Sept. 23 and ended Nov. 30. The campaign, which allowed missionaries and U.S.-based staff to make their pledges confidentially, indicates their high level of commitment to the Revelation 7:9 vision […]
MISSIONS, LOTTIE MOON AND LEADERSHIP
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director On Sept. 15, 1887, a diminutive woman named Charlotte Digges Moon, known to Southern Baptists as “Lottie,” sat at a rough hewn table in a modest hut in China and penned a letter that would forever transform the Southern Baptist Convention. In that letter, Lottie called […]