Southern Baptists gave a record $53,845,989 to last year’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions, exceeding the previous year’s offering by 8.5 percent and nearly reaching the national goal of $54 million.
Robert E. “Bob” Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board, described Southern Baptists’ “sacrificial generosity” in 2004 as a “significant breakthrough” in North American missions giving.
“Southern Baptists have proven themselves faithful to the cause of missions and reaching North America for Christ,” Reccord said. “Never before has funding been more critical to the mission of ensuring that every person in the United States, Canada and their territories has the opportunity to hear the gospel, respond with faith in Christ, and participate in a New Testament fellowship of believers.
“On behalf of our missionaries and mission partners, I want to express my deepest appreciation to the pastors and mission leaders in every church that challenged their members to prayerfully give to this vital offering,” Reccord said. “I want to especially thank the leadership and membership of Woman’s Missionary Union who tirelessly support all of our missions endeavors.”
The 2005 offering’s goal is $55 million. The offering will be promoted in most Southern Baptist churches in March beginning with the Week of Prayer for North American Missions, March 6-13, and continuing through Easter on March 27.
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