It's not too late to make your Lottie Moon Christmas Offering gift! Because CP covers the adminstrative costs, 100 percent of your gift goes to the international mission field.

If you’ve not already made your gift to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions you can still do so even if you don’t get it in before Christmas. This offering is the ideal way for Southern Baptists to support international missions for a couple of really good reasons:

1. Because your Lottie Moon gift is to a Southern Baptist Convention-approved designated offering, it means 100 percent of your gift goes to the International Mission Board. Typically, when you put a gift in the offering plate to support your church, most of what you gives stays with the church to support your local work and other church-sponsored missions and ministries. If you attend an average Southern Baptist church, just over 93 percent is used at the local level with about 7 percent going on to your state convention which then divides it according to the Cooperative Program funding allocation approved by annual meeting messengers between state, national and international Southern Baptist work. But when your gift is designated for this special offering, all of it goes for the vital work of international missions.
2. Because the Cooperative Program is already at work covering the administrative costs of the International Mission Board, 100 percent of your gift through this special offering can go directly to supporting the work of missionaries on the mission field. This may sound a bit similar to the first statement but it’s really not. What I am saying here is that once you’ve given your Lottie Moon gift and it gets to the International Mission Board, none of that gift has to be used to cover overhead such as electricity at the Richmond headquarters, accounting work to manage the gift, administrative salaries for those handling planning and logistics, etc. All of that is already covered by CP so your gift goes straight to missions work. You will not find a more efficient transfer of your giving directly to the cause in any other charity.

Don’t give just because the system is efficient, though. Give generously because the world needs Christ and we need to tell people who have never heard about the one who can not only change their lives but give them a whole new life. Speaking as one who came to Christ through the ministry of an International Mission Board missionary on the island of Okinawa, I can say that I am eternally grateful for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

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