Lottie Moon Tops Goal!                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                   Vol. XII, No. 1, January 1999

For the First time in 16 years the Lottie Moon offering for foreign missions has exceeded its goal. When the books closed 31 May Lottie Moon receipts totalled $100,064,318.10, surpassing $100,000,000 (this year’s goal) for the first time. This is the offering’s fifth straight record year and an increase of $7 million above last year. The 1998 goal is set at $110,000,000. The Lottie Moon offering funds half the annual budget of the SBC’s International Mission Board, and all of it goes to overseas operations, none to stateside overhead. [BP]

Southern Baptists Overseas:

The previous item tells about the Lottie Moon offering. Here is what that money and the 50% of the Cooperative Program which goes to the IMB produced in the 1997 fiscal year: 4,249 overseas personnel; 628 personnel added last year (a record); 17,261 volunteers (another record); 283,100 baptisms; 2,451 new churches; 41,521 total churches; 21,399 missions; 4,112,181 members; and missionaries in 127 countries. Give to Lottie Moon and impact our world for Christ.