The Baptist Digest

State Missions Offering - Impacting Our Judea

By Tim Boyd

September 2009

This month is our annual emphasis on state missions with the Viola Webb Missions Offering (VWMO). Unlike many state conventions, this offering is also tied to work in your local association. Every dollar given to VWMO is divided equally between the association and the state convention. Therefore, when you give to VWMO, you are making a significant contribution to mission work in both our two-state convention and your local association.

Your gifts to VWMO will mean that more missionaries, more evangelistic activities, and more church planting activities will move forward in Nebraska and Kansas. You may not know it but 35 counties in Kansas and 54 counties in Nebraska have no Southern Baptist work. Many of these counties have no evangelical work at all.

Neither Nebraska nor Kansas is a densely populated state when you look at other parts of the country. But the lost in Kansas and Nebraska are just as much in need of salvation through Christ. This is our immediate mission field. God has given us the responsibility of reaching these people for Christ. Your gifts to VWMO along with your church’s participation in the Cooperative Program enable us to fund efforts to reach this mission field. I hope that you will prayerfully support VWMO and encourage your church to give faithfully to the Cooperative Program.

I also wanted to use my column this month to remind you about a resource available to all of our churches in KNCSB. That resource is Percept, which provides demographic data in a very understandable format. The folks at Percept have continued to improve their product and make more features available to our churches.

Both the “FirstView Report” and the “Ministry Area Profile” are now available at no cost to all of our churches. The “FirstView Report” is a quick demographic overview of your church ministry area. It gives you a real feel for the folks that God has given you an opportunity to reach for Christ. The “Ministry Area Profile” is a much more detailed picture of your church ministry area. It can be very effective for any church considering a church plant or a major new initiative.

Every church has immediate access to the “FirstView Report.”  To obtain the “Ministry Area Profile” you will need to contact your Director of Missions or the state convention office. If you would like more information on these tools, feel free to contact me at 800-984-9092 or by email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).

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