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.
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