SF647 - 1996 LOTTIE MOON OFFERING STATS (Acts 1 8)
SF647
1996 LOTTIE MOON OFFERING STATS
Acts 1:8
SOUTHERN BAPTIST “ON MISSION WITH GOD”
Our Missionary Personnel
4,129 Missionaries serving oversees
Resident Missionaries or Representatives in 127 countries
We are assisting in 24 other countries
We have ongoing relationships in 32 additional countries
For a total of 183 countries!!
Our Mission Work World-Wide
In 1995...
A record number of new churches: 2612
Total baptisms 287,806
New cities opened to the gospel: 528
New people groups touched with the gospel: 41
Short-term Volunteer Missionaries: 15,000
Our Mission Work in Europe and the Middle East
Second Baptist In Oradea, Romania dedicated a 2,500 seat facility that was filled with visitors!
In Russia 1,500 Siberians became Christians
Our Mission Work in Asia
Evangelistic meetings in Nepal produced 1,500 converts
437 new churches planted and 40,602 believers baptized!
Our Mission Work in Africa
Volunteers prayed for a Senegalese man born crippled. He stood and walked-completely healed. A Muslim saw the miracle and immediately confessed Christ.
On a continent fraught with AIDS and drought-and where half the countries are at war - 103,637 people met the Prince of Peace.
Our Mission Work in the Americas
299 churches planted and 94,183 believers baptized!
Yet the Need is still Great!
Over 193 million people have never heard the gospel
The Last Frontier’s is still in darkness
1.7 billion people live in these hard to reach areas
God is working - since 1992 churches have multiplied from 55 to 1,027 and membership has grown from 1,830 to 59,000.
WEST HAVEN BAPTIST “ON MISSION WITH GOD”
First we can pray!
Then we can give!
$1 = 10 evangelistic tracts in Guatemala
$5 = a pair of shoes for an orphan child in Bulgaria
$10 = a year’s worth of literature for a Sunday School class in Guatemala.
$50 = provide enough fuel in a missionary’s vehicle to get him four hours into the bush of Ambia to start and/or teach a Baptist church and get him home again.
$100 = buy a bicycle for a home missionary in Angola.
$500 = put an 18' x 30' roof on a church in Kenya
$1000 = purchase a portable sound system for street preaching in the Azores of Portugal.
$5000 = buy two tents for starting new churches in Kenya.
Finally Go!
Go across the street, across town, across the state, across the country - around the World!
Just Go - You can’t have God or the Gospel with GO!!!!
