Dawson gives past goal in Go Love Tell missions drive

The people of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, set their eyes on five missions projects recently — one local, one in Maine and three international. They called the whole project Go Love Tell. And then they set the bar at $5.1 million for their members to pledge to accomplish it.

“The total five-year cost of the five projects is $5.1 million, so that was the goal for our members to make commitments to give over and above their tithes and offerings to pay the cost of the five projects,” said Tom Thompson, Dawson’s minister of stewardship. But church members didn’t stop there — they gave over and above the goal too. Currently the commitments total more than $5.5 million, Thompson said. “With the extra we will be able to do even more missions work than was originally planned.”

Ben Hale, evangelism and missions pastor, said the original projects included building a pediatric wing for a Baptist hospital in Tanzania, running a reading initiative in a Birmingham school and starting five churches in Maine over a five-year period.

To read more about Dawson’s unique capital campaign for missions, see the Oct. 30, 2014, issue of The Alabama Baptist or visit www.thealabamabaptist.org and search for “Major Missions Project Initiative.”