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Live with Urgency: Share God's Transforming Power
The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® is much more than an offering envelope and an annual missions-giving emphasis. When Southern Baptists place their money in the offering plate, they are in essence placing it in the hands of a missionary. Every dollar given to the AAEO goes to support missionaries on the field. Those missionaries and supplies will help others hear the message of Christ and respond in faith to His offer of salvation. Time and again our missionaries relate how the offering is their lifeblood. They know that behind each penny given, there is a Southern Baptist who believes in what they do and are affirming the need to equip them to share the gospel with those who need a Savior.
Since the offering's inception, more than $1 billion has been received by the North American Mission Board to use in reaching people in North America for Christ.
The 2010 national goal for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® is $70 million. 71% of the receipts to the 2010 AAEO will provide money for salaries, health benefits, orientation, and ongoing training expenses of mission personnel. 17% will go toward church planting support. In 2009, Southern Baptists started more than 1,400 new churches. Mission pastors serve English-speaking and language churches in rural and urban settings. Offering funds provide overhead costs for starting a church such as rental of a facility, material, and promotional expenses. And 12% will provide evangelism support which include church and community ministries, resort ministries, literacy missions, sports evangelism, Scripture distribution, special evangelism events, Internet evangelism, and media use are ways missionaries use AAEO funds to impact North America for Christ.
For more information about Annie Armstrong and the North American Mission Board click here.
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