NAMB And The Annie Armstrong Offering

February 2009

Since Annie Armstrong Offering goes to support the work of the North American Mission Board, I wanted to share with you some facts about the North American Mission Board and the Annie Armstrong Offering:

  • Most North American Mission Board missions personnel are jointly funded with state Baptist conventions, associations, and churches, and receive support from the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering®.  The 2009 goal is $63 million – 100 percent of which will directly support missionaries and their ministries.
  • Total gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in 2008 exceeded $57 million.  Since its inception, more than $1 billion has been given through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.
  • NAMB’s budget for 2009 is $133 million; 46% of the budget comes from AAEO and 36% from the Cooperative Program.
  • NAMB assists Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission in the United States, Canada and their territories through a national strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches and sending missionaries, in cooperation with Acts 1:8 Partners.
  • Headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga., NAMB was formed in 1997, and is the successor organization of the Home Mission Board (which began in 1845), the Brotherhood Commission and Radio and Television Commissions.
  • The 5,500 missionaries, 2,600 chaplains (serving in military, institutions such as prisons and hospitals, and in corporate settings), and hundreds of thousands of mission volunteers (e.g. World Changers, Mission Service Corps missionaries) are seeking to reach the estimated 251 million unbelievers in the United States, Canada and their territories.
  • Southern Baptists have a goal of starting more than 2,000 churches each year.
  • Church and community ministries such as Pregnancy Care Centers, literacy missions, Baptist center ministries, week day ministries and immigration and hunger ministries result in more than 30,000 professions of faith each year.
  • All seven Southern Baptist seminaries, including the Canadian Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, have Nehemiah Project mission professors in place.  Because of this partnership to mobilize new church planters, almost 900 church planter interns have been appointed to serve in summer, semester and full-time capacities.
  • More than 24,000 youth and adults learned about mission involvement and ministry by participating in 103 World Changers and PowerPlant projects last year.
  • More than 1,450 high school and college students answered God’s call as summer, Sojourner, Innovator and semester missionaries last year.
  • More than 70,000 people are trained in Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, and NAMB works in partnership with Baptist state conventions to coordinate national disaster relief efforts.

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