World Ministries Mission Tithes Contribution Update
May 11, 2008

Suggested worship service for this day.

The following is an update on World Ministries Mission Tithes contributions. For more information and updates on how your contributions to World Ministries Mission Tithes are spreading the peace of Jesus Christ, read the May Herald “Sharing Our Witness and Resources” section. For offertory stories from Apostle Linda Booth’s Southern USA Mission Field, visit www.CofChrist.org/offertory.

A. World Ministries Mission Tithes Update

The church received an estimated $840,000 in World Ministries Mission Tithes in March 2008. Thank you! If contributions continue at the current pace through the remaining three months of the fiscal year, we expect to receive about $10.4 million.

Life-changing ministries are happening in the worldwide church right now through your faithful giving:

• New life and congregational vitality through the Peace Club at Tri-City, Kentucky
• Attracting seekers, growing disciples, and sending missionaries in Bayou La Batre, Alabama
• Oblation aid to buy food in Malawi to sustain people through a drought. Though the aid was originally for church members, the members shared with the entire village and no one died due to the drought.

Thank you for responding so faithfully.

B.  Congregational Ministries Mission Tithes Update: Local

The congregational financial officer should give an update about the congregation’s budget at this time. Highlight positive things that have happened in addition to items that need attention.

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C. Blessing on Our Offering

From  Psalm 104:31 – 34 (NRSV) we read: May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works—who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

Sharing our offerings equally between local and world ministries changes lives locally and around the world. Let us share in the prayer of blessing on our offering.