RIDGECREST, N.C. — Southern Baptist giving to the 2006 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions has been so generous that the offering has set a new record with two months still remaining in the giving period.
Carlos Ferrer, interim chief operating officer for the North American Mission Board, announced the record giving at the opening session of the Woman’s Missionary Union national missions event Sept. 27 at the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center near Asheville, N.C. “Thanks to the sacrificial giving of Southern Baptists and the dedicated support of Woman’s Missionary Union, we have already received in the first nine months of the year nearly $55 million for the Annie Armstrong Offering,” he announced. “That is more than we have ever received in an entire year.”
The AAEO is promoted each spring across the Southern Baptist Convention, but gifts are received throughout the year. One hundred percent of AAEO funds are used to support Southern Baptist missionaries and their ministries in evangelism and church starting.
Until this year, the most ever given to the home mission offering was $53.8 million in 2004, and last year’s total was slightly less at $53.6 million. Ferrer said not only will the year-end total be a new record, the offering likely will exceed the 2006 national goal of $56 million — which has only happened three times in the last 25 years.
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