Southern Baptist churches gave 3 percent more to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions in 2011 than they did in 2010.
For the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, the offering totaled $56,040,868.
The offering directly pays for missionary salaries and provides field resources for missionaries serving in North America. Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), shared the offering total at the Feb. 8 meeting of NAMB’s board of trustees in Miami.
“I want to thank Southern Baptists for their generosity and for continuing to make North America a priority,” he said. “I also want to promise that we place a high value on stewardship and that your offering dollars are being spent carefully and wisely.”
Funds given to Annie Armstrong go directly to missionaries serving on the missions field. They are not spent on salaries for staff serving at NAMB’s Alpharetta, Ga., building and they are not used for administrative costs.
NAMB promotes Annie Armstrong in partnership with national Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU). Ezell thanked WMU leaders and members for their “tireless efforts on behalf of our missionaries and on behalf of this offering.”
“Wanda Lee (national WMU executive director) and WMU are champions for our missionaries and they are the best partners we could ask for when it comes to encouraging Southern Baptists to support this offering,” he said.
Lee noted, “It is both exciting and encouraging to see the 2011 offering total up from last year. … We are grateful for our strong partnership with (NAMB), the committed missionaries who serve all across North America to make Him known and share His love, and Southern Baptists who give sacrificially each year so that their work might not only continue but flourish.”
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