168 Colonial Drive, Jackson, MS 39204
Missions Opportunities
Mississippi Mission Offering
It is received each September in all our Southern Baptist churches in Mississippi and expresses our Caring in Local Communities; Reaching out with a Helping Hand; Ministering at Camps and Campuses; Serving in and Beyond Mississippi.
The Margaret Lackey State Offering supports ministries in Mississippi such as initial funding to start new churches, camps (Central Hills Baptist Retreat for boys and girls; Camp Garaywa in Clinton), collegiate outreach (Baptist Student Unions), men's and women's job corps(discipleship and job skills at 14 sites in Mississippi), and literacy missions ministry (training for volunteers in basic literacy). The offering trains and mobilizes volunteers in North America and international missions, disaster relief (physical labor, hot meals, counselors of comfort), criminal justice (discipleship materials and seminary classes in jails and prisons), and cross-cultural outreach (to different language groups and cultures). It also provides training for volunteers to minister to the Deaf; offers a Christian witness and warm hospitality to seafarers in Pascagoula and Gulfport; assists in sending short-term workers in North America and other countries to work alongside missionaries.
MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
- Children's Hospital of Mississippi (formerly Blair Batson Children's Hospital)
- Buried Treasures Home
- Cuba - Church Starts
- Crossroads Thrift Store
- Franklin Graham, Christmas Child Shoebox Ministry
- Gateway Rescue Mission
- Christian Women's Job Corps, Christian Men's Job Corps
- International Missions Christmas Offering
- Mercy House
- Mississippi Food Bank
- Mississippi Missions Special Offering
- North American Missions Easter offering
- Port Ministry, New Orleans
- and many others
Operation Christmas Child - shoeboxes OCTOBER & NOVEMBER EVERY YEAR
This mission project is also known as the Shoebox Ministry of Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse. Shoeboxes filled with age appropriate gifts for the children are delivered at Christmas time to children around the world by Samaritan's Purse. Alta Woods participates by packing shoeboxes every October for delivery in November to our local central collection church. Our Missions Committee will head up this mission project for Alta Woods. Thank you to everyone who participates in packing shoeboxes for children whom you will never meet unless you meet them in heaven one day.
Our deepest appreciation to Rufus and Velma Stevens who led the church in this mission endeavor for many years. Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to Velma in Rufus' passing in January 2021.
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for Missionaries Overseas nOVEMBER & DECEMBER EVERY YEAR $7,839- 2021
Every year at Christmas our Baptist Convention collects a nationwide missions offering from local churches for missionaries who are serving overseas. Every penny goes directly to the missionaries, nothing is kept for administration costs. Administration costs are covered by our cooperative giving each week and month. The offering is named for Lottie Moon who was a missionary to China from 1873 to 1912 and literally gave her life sharing Jesus with the people there. Seeing the hunger of the people, she pleaded for money from the foreign mission board but they were too deeply in debt to help. So she gave her Chinese friends her food and her personal money and starved herself until she weighed but 50 pounds. In 1912, her fellow missionaries sent her back to the United States but she died before she arrived.
Our missionaries serving all over the world today serve at personal sacrifice to themselves and their families. They receive a monthly stipend for their living expenses and ministry needs. This offering gives them additional support for carrying the good news of Jesus Christ to the people in their country.
Children's Hospital OF mISSISSIPPI (formerly Blair Batson) - January and August EVERY YEAR
We had a great number of contributions to the Hospital recently, August 2022. (see pictures on Home Page).
We bring food items in January and August for the waiting areas for the families of children who are in the hospital. Many of these children spend months at the hospital with critical illnesses. This is an opportunity for us to minister to their parents who may have to stay at the hospital with their child for that entire duration. The response by the AWBC family this year was the best ever. We filled up the back of the church bus In July 2021 with your donations. I appreciate Lark Hammond helping load up and deliver the food to the Children’s Hospital. You all have reached out with the love of God to touch many families who are hurting. God bless you!
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions MARCH/APRIL ANNUALLY
This offering accounts for 49% of NAMB budget, with 100% of offering gifts going directly to the field for missionaries and their ministries. None is kept for administrative purposes. Your generous giving will help equip them for God's call on their lives to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionaries and chaplains serving in the Southern Baptist North America Organization need our prayers and our support. Pray for the power of God's Holy Spirit to help them be effective. Pray for their personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and their families and their ministries. Many are seeing God move in remarkable ways.
Some areas of service include - Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Canada, Boston, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico, Toronto, Las Vegas, Cleveland, etc.
Port Ministry - New Orleans
January 2022
Alta Woods Baptist Church,
"I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:3-6
Saturday, January 22, Re-dedication service of the River Parishes Ministry Center.
Thank you for your faithful support and prayers!
Bicycle Ministry
David Watts has been operating a bicycle ministry for some time now. There are others who are involved, but he is the Main Man! He is always on the look out for bicycles that are new or used that he can give to needy boys and girls. He fixes old ones and gets them ready to ride. I have seen his handiwork and am very impressed. Christmas 2020 he gave away about 50 bicycles! Perhaps you have a bicycle in your attic or basement or just lying around in the yard that needs a little tender loving care and could be a blessing to a child that doesn't have one. Maybe your neighbor or brother or sister or cousin has one that their child has outgrown and they no longer need it. David can turn it into a blessing for some boy or girl today. You can call him directly or call the church office and we will put him in touch with you.
