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…