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Special
Offerings ~ Agencies
We Support ~ Other Agencies
There
are many other agencies we support through our prayers and
hands-on work. To learn more about these efforts, click
the links below:
Special
Offerings
Each
year, in addition to our regularly budgeted line items,
our congregation
collects three special mission offerings. Recipients of
the offerings are decided by the Mission Action Committee
and the Congregational Council.
Spring
Mission Offering
Usually collected in May, the Spring Mission Offering has
a different emphasis each year. In 2005, the offering was
dedicated to Habitat Unity House IV.
Hunger
Offering
In October and
November, we collect money and canned goods to help alleviate
the problem of hunger in our city and around the world.
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving we collect canned goods
and "rice bowl banks" and pass along our offerings
to agencies we support. In 2004 year, Second Harvester Food
Bank received several hundred pounds of canned goods as
a result of this offering. Funding recipients were Baptist
World Aid and Bread for the World.
Global
Missions Offering
Each December
we collect an offering to support mission and ministry around
the world.
Habitat
Unity House
In 1999, 2001,
2003, and 2005, our church participated with seven other
congregations to fund and build a Habitat House. Each church
is responsible for a portion of the needs funds, contributes
several workers for each workday, and takes turns providing
lunch for the workers.
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Agencies
We Support
The
following are agencies that receive funding as line-item
designations in
our annual budget. Our Mission Action Committee reviews
this list every year to determine the level of support we
offer each organization.
Baptist
Friendship House
Offers transitional housing for homeless women and families,
as well as a day center with programs to serve the homeless
and needy on the edge of the Bywater area, just past the
French Quarter. A mission of the North American Mission
Board, our regular financial and hands-on support helps
Friendship House and its ministries continue.
Carver
and Rachel Sims Centers
These two Baptist Community Centers in New Orleans' Irish
Channel serve the children and families of this needy neighborhood.
With after school programs, tutoring, food pantry and other
important ministries, these centers are hubs for healthy
community development. We participate in a variety of efforts
to support these centers.
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Other
Agencies
There
are many other agencies we support through our prayers and
hands-on work. To learn more about these efforts, click
the links below:
Bread
for the World
Baptist
World Aid
Habitat
for Humanity
Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship Global Missions
The
Alliance of Baptists Global Missions
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