Southern Baptists gave a record $43.5 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions in 1999, reported Robert E. Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB).
The agency uses the funds to support more than 5,000 missionaries in the United States and Canada.
Speaking to the executive board of Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) meeting in annual session at Shocco Springs Conference Center, Reccord expressed appreciation to WMU — the agency which initiated the missions offering more than 100 years ago.
“Thank you and your thousands of WMU members across the country for helping Southern Baptists give $43,550,000 to the Annie Armstrong Offering last year,” Reccord said.
“This is the seventh year in a row the offering has set a new record, and we are so wonderfully thankful for what God is doing through this offering to reach people for Himself,” he said.
The offering supplies 38 percent of NAMB’s budget from the Southern Baptist Convention’s unified giving plan and the remainder from individual gifts
Although the offering fell short of goals, Record said “we realize there will never be enough to meet the overwhelming challenges of reaching North America for Christ.”(BP)
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