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LMCO RECEIVES 3RD HIGHEST TOTAL EVER

October 10, 2019

Baptist Press

RICHMOND — Southern Baptist church members gave $156.6 million to support international missionaries in 2018-2019, the third-highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions ever received. Tennessee Baptists gave $10,389,109 to the 2018-19 offering, according to the TBMB accounting office.

“Because you and your church gave through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, you are a part of reaching the unreached in every nation,” said IMB president Paul Chitwood. [Read more…]

ANSWERING THE CALL IN ASIA

December 7, 2018

Jackson pastor leads Hispanic mission team to other side of globe

Jackson pastor Daniel Tuchez has been making a difference in Southeast Asia, according to an official with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. Tuchez was featured in the IMB’s Week of Prayer for International Missions.

Editor’s Note: The Week of Prayer for International Missions is underway through Dec. 9. Every December since 1888, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering has empowered Southern Baptists’ international missions work. The goal for this year’s Lottie Moon offering is $160 million.

By Grace Thornton
Writer, International Mission Board

RICHMOND, Va. — Daniel Tuchez remembers the day he got the call.

“Jason called me and said, ‘I need you to pray about this city in Southeast Asia, because it is going to be opening up, and maybe there are opportunities,” relayed Tuchez, who serves as pastor of Iglesia Bautista El Shaddai in Jackson, Tenn.

It was a big deal. But the call itself wasn’t a surprise. In the years before, Tuchez had accompanied Jason Carlisle, the IMB’s director of Hispanic mobilization, on many trips. [Read more…]

HOW WILL YOU RESPOND TO LOTTIE’S CHALLENGE?

December 4, 2018

By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director

Time passes, transitions happen, and generations come and go, but I pray we as Southern Baptists never lose the missionary spirit of Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon.

Lottie Moon stood no taller than 4 feet 6 inches tall, but she cast a shadow that’s stretched for more than 100 years. Lottie left for China in the early 1880’s and gave 39 years and her life – literally – to the Chinese people as a teacher and evangelist. Among her monumental Kingdom contributions was the foundation she laid for support of international missions among Southern Baptists through a special offering. [Read more…]

GREEAR GIVES LOTTIE MOON CHALLENGE

December 3, 2018

By David Roach
Baptist Press

“Is there something you would be willing to do if we hit $170 (million)?” Todd Unzicker (left) asked SBC President J.D. Greear during a Nov. 27 Facebook Live event. Screen capture from Facebook

DURHAM, N.C. — Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear thinks Southern Baptists can exceed their $160 million goal for this year’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (LMCO) for International Missions. So he’s offering a lighthearted incentive to encourage a challenge goal of $170 million.

If the 2018-19 LMCO hits that mark, Greear will perform a stunt suggested by Southern Baptists on social media, he announced Nov. 27 during a Facebook Live event, which had been viewed more than 6,100 times by midday Nov. 30. A video clip of Greear’s challenge tweeted by the International Mission Board had been viewed more than 2,500 times in the same timeframe. [Read more…]

LOTTIE MOON OFFERING TOTALS NEARLY $159 MILLION

October 10, 2018

By Julie McGowan
IMB

IMB missionary Larry Pepper (center) has spent more than two decades offering hope to the hurting in Africa.
— IMB Photo

RICHMOND, Va. — On the 100th anniversary since Southern Baptists named their global mission offering in honor of esteemed missionary Lottie Moon, church members gave $158.9 million to sustain their international missionaries worldwide — the second-highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® for International Missions ever received.

“We praise the Lord and thank Southern Baptist churches who have again generously demonstrated their faithfulness in undergirding the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth,” said Clyde Meador, interim president of the International Mission Board. [Read more…]

LOTTIE MOON GIFTS UP 4.4 PERCENT

April 19, 2018

Baptist Press

RICHMOND — Southern Baptists’ contributions to support international missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering are 4.4 percent ahead of last year’s pace, according to a report by Rodney Freeman, IMB treasurer and vice president of support services. [Read more…]

A NORMAL TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHURCH

April 17, 2018

By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director

Normal is good. I’m a fan of normal.

I recently found normal in Howell, about an hour and 15-minute drive straight south from our house in Nolensville. The weather was nearly perfect for an early morning drive with my bride, Jeanne, and we wound our way along country roads through the beautiful rolling hills of Middle Tennessee.

Howell is a small community located between Lewisburg and Fayetteville. We pulled into the parking lot of First Baptist Church Howell and the thought came to my mind. First Baptist Church and the town of Howell are, well, normal.

According to the last census, if you draw a ring around Howell about eight miles from the center of town, the population of Howell is about 8,800. That’s not many folks, but it’s normal. And the church — First Baptist Howell — has between 75 to 100 people of all ages in worship, but that’s normal. [Read more…]

LOTTIE MOON OFFERING 4.1% ABOVE LAST YEAR’S PACE

January 19, 2018

by Julie McGowan
Baptist Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Southern Baptists’ support of international missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is 4.1 percent ahead of the same time frame as last year, according to a report by Rodney Freeman, IMB treasurer and vice president of support services. [Read more…]

GRATITUDE FELT BY MULTIPLE GENERATIONS

December 19, 2017

‘Christmas checks’ a testament of WMU’s lifetime missions commitment

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — The big, yellow folder that Tennessee WMU executive director Vickie Anderson keeps in her drawer is just about to burst.

The folder is filled with thank you cards and letters that Anderson has received from retired IMB missionaries and their children. [Read more…]

IMB’S PLATT: WHEN WE PRAY, GOD WORKS

December 14, 2017

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention was Dec. 3-10 with the theme verse taken from 2 Corinthians 5:14 (HCSB) “For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If one died for all, then all died.” The verse undergirds the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. The offering, in tandem with Cooperative Program gifts from Southern Baptist churches, supports international workers in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. Gifts to the Lottie Moon offering are received through local Southern Baptist churches or online at IMB.org/lmco, where there are resources to promote the offering. This year’s goal is $160 million.

Believers pray during a worship service in Nepal, a country where it often takes people years to decide to follow Christ after they hear the gospel for the first time. Pray for IMB workers who are giving their lives to be there for the long haul, sharing with the Nepali people in the face of difficulties.
-IMB Photo

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) — No matter what the story is, whether it’s a family planting a church in a doctor’s office in Japan or a young man sharing truth over coffee with university students in Mexico City, International Mission Board president David Platt says two things are true: God is at work through missionaries around the world and praying for them matters. [Read more…]

Jackson pastor leads Hispanic mission team to other side of globe

‘Christmas checks’ a testament of WMU’s lifetime missions commitment

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