Annie Armstrong Offering
Annie Armstrong was born in Baltimore at a time when women were not expected to lead. She served, challenged churches to action and rallied support for missionaries. Ultimately, Annie was recognized as a national Southern Baptist trailblazer renowned for visionary missions leadership.
Contributions
- Started Bay View Mission for Baltimore’s poor and addicted
- Served as the first executive of Woman’s Missionary Union
- Raised support for missionaries to Italian and Jewish immigrants
- Initiated fund-raising “brick cards” to build churches in Cuba
- Gained support for the first black, female missionaries
- Secured funds to relieve China missionary, Lottie Moon, who had served for 11 years without a furlough
- Advocated for Native Americans and impoverished mountain people
- Traveled across America in the late 1800s encouraging missionaries and inspiring churches to pray, give and act
- Honored in 1934 when The Home Missions Offering was re-named for her to encourage more to follow her sacrificial example
NC Missions offering
- Shares the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Relieves suffering.
- Treats the sick.
- Helps plant new churches.
- Mobilizes volunteers for missions.
- Responds to various disasters.
Western North Carolina Mountain State Fair Ministry
The mission of the WNC Mountain State Fair Ministry is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the people working at and attending the annual Mountain State Fair. This will be accomplished by volunteers from Baptist churches in Western North Carolina who will witness by caring for the physical and spiritual needs of fair employees and fair guests.
Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes
The Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child collects shoebox gifts filled with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items—and delivers them to children in need around the world to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way. For many of these children, the gift-filled shoebox is the first gift they have ever received.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind, has collected and delivered more than 220 million shoebox gifts to children in more than 170 countries and territories.
Lottie Moon Offering
Growing up in Virginia, Lottie Moon and her siblings chose to rebel against Christianity. At 18, Lottie followed Christ and was baptized. When she was 33, she sailed to China as a Southern Baptist missionary. She saw firsthand the world’s greatest problem – LOSTNESS.
In letters to Southern Baptists in America, she pleaded for increasing prayer and giving. Her letters raised more support for missionaries to be sent to China.
Every year, Southern Baptists collect the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® where 100% of the gifts collected
send and support missionaries.