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The Big News: We surpassed our Faith Promise goal for this past year. Our target for 2002-2003 was $32,406 but our actual missions offerings came in at $32,531. Praise the Lord! Pastor Brian Manning and I challenged the church to meet or surpass our Faith Promise giving and, if we did, we would allow our hair to be cut really short in front of the church. Well, we gladly lost our hair!
After the totals were announced Deacon Elyvn Winter also joined
in the fun by agreeing to have his famous "retro hairy mutton chops"
shaved off if an additional $100 was given.
That came easily and put
Now for the next 12 months...
Commitment cards were collected and our target for 2004 is $37,216.
This is an exciting goal and a significant increase over this past year.
Our treasurer reports that the number of returned cards indicates that nearly
every person in our church is having a part in supporting our missionaries.
The Gospel Baptist Church supports Australian missionaries to
Papua New Guinea, Tonga, East Timor, Japan, Kazakhstan, Vanuatu, Scotland and
two local works in Australia.
I am thrilled with our church's response and commitment to worldwide missions and thank the Lord for every participant. Thousands will hear the gospel because of their faithfulness. By God's grace and provision we are WORLD-CHANGERS!
Pastor Larry
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