The Baptist Digest

Viola Webb State Missions Offering Helps Meet The Need

August 2007

In this issue of the Digest, we feature materials related to the Viola Webb State Missions Offering. During the years that I was pastoring in KNCSB, I made sure that my church supported this vital offering.

I have found that the state missions offering is often the one that is the hardest to promote in local churches. We all remember Lottie Moon at Christmas, and we remember Annie Armstrong at Easter. It seems as if people automatically jump on the bandwagon for these offerings. When it comes to our state offering, people seem to have the attitude that it is relatively unimportant.

Perhaps, because our churches are involved in so many activities in their own communities, they don’t see the value for state missions as clearly as they see the value for international and North American missions. We need to help each other understand that this is not the case. Our state missions offering is just as important as these other offerings.

Consider our situation in KNCSB. We cover two rather large states in terms of geographic area. Yet, we have approximately 400 churches. In Texas there are associations that have more churches than our whole convention.

Many of the counties in Kansas and Nebraska have no Southern Baptist work in them. In other counties, we have too few churches for the population. In many of our larger cities, there are great needs for new church plants as new neighborhoods and suburban communities develop.

How are we going to fund work in all these places? Certainly, the North American Mission Board partners with us to reach these unreached areas in our convention. However, we need to do even more if we are to spread the gospel throughout our two states. The Viola Webb State Missions Offering helps us to meet the need.

The way in which these funds are used impacts our mission field in two ways. First, 50% of these monies are used by KNCSB to fund field missionaries throughout our convention. Secondly, the other 50% of these monies are returned to your association so that special mission needs in your association can be addressed.

When we neglect the state missions offering, we are punishing ourselves. We are hindering missionaries throughout our two states who are sacrificially laboring to bring the gospel to the lost.

Let’s join hands this year and make this a record year for giving to the Viola Webb State Missions Offering!

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