What Churches Accomplish Through the Annual Offering
May 01, 2010
In 2009, you served 3,340 children, families and individuals through the Christ-centered ministries of Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries. Whether through our group homes, foster care homes, Pathways Professional Counseling, homes for mothers and their children, or other ministries, these children and adults were protected, nurtured and restored through our Christ-centered services.
Alabama Baptist churches are instrumental in providing hope for tomorrow to those in need. Your church gifts through the Annual Children’s Homes Offering accounted for 30.98 percent of the operating budget of the Children’s Homes in 2009.
That means your partnership covered all expenses for a little more than 16 weeks in 2009. During those 16 weeks, your partnership provided:
- Homes for the children in our care
- Clothing for those children
- Homes for homeless mothers with dependent children
- School supplies
- Beds in which to sleep
- Medical and counseling care
- Scholarships to help Pathways Professional Counseling stay true to its commitment never to turn away a person in need just because of his or her inability to pay
You are helping provide hope and wholeness for children and families through knowing Christ. Thank you for partnering with us in Building Hope and Restoring Life.
Would you please ask your pastor and church leadership to support the Children’s Homes through the Annual Offering or budget gifts? If they have not done so, they may order complimentary promotional inserts, posters, envelopes and a DVD by contacting Kay Taylor at ktaylor@abchome.org, or 1-888-720-8805, Ext. 105.