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Carpenters for Christ
This is not how most people choose to spend their summer vacation - in a town that's not their own, building a church that's not their own. Installing heating, air and ventilation, electrical work, putting up sheet rock and even framing the buildings; Carpenters for Christ is a missions oriented group sharing the love of Jesus Christ by helping others in need.
"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." 1 Peter 3:15b (NIV)
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Throughout her career, Charlotte Digges Moon more commonly known as Lottie Moon wrote numerous letters urging Southern Baptists to become more involved in missions. In there letters she stated, "How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?” During her nearly forty years 1873 to 1912 in the mission’s field, she laid a foundation for strong, solid support for missions among the Southern Baptists. Still today more than 3,340 of the world’s nearly 11,600 people groups live and die in spiritual darkness. To reach these lost people will require the continued growth of our missionary force through partnering with churches, Baptist, and others.
 Southern Baptist missionaries encompass the largest group of denominational missionaries serving around the world today. Through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, support is able to be provided for a respectable 5,200 missionaries on the field. Today, our goal for the annual missions offering named for Lottie Moon is a substantial $150 million. Missionaries all around the world need people like you to give both financially and spiritually. They are looking for prayer warriors just like you; for God-called servants to join them on the field as new missionaries. Your financial support through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering can help touch lives around the Globe. As Lottie Moon said, “How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God. (Tungchow, China: Sept. 15, 1887)”.
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