Annie Armstrong Easter Offering
What is the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering?
Many North American cities could reasonably be called pre-Christian. Even in the traditional “Bible Belt” Christianity is being pushed to the margins. In the midst of this, God is bringing the nations to our shores and offering unprecedented opportunities for the gospel.
The Church in North America is also the primary source for funding and sending missionaries, so the spiritual health of North America impacts mission work around the globe.
At the North American Mission Board, we see a mission field that needs the hope of the gospel. With your partnership, we’re committed to taking this hope to cities, small towns and college campuses.
Your prayers and gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering provide support for thousands of missionaries. These men and women are planting new churches in unreached communities and meeting needs through compassion ministries. Every day, lives are being impacted and transformed.
The needs are great, but the living hope of Christ is greater. Thank you for reaching out with hope to your own community and for your passionate support for North American Missions.
The Church in North America is also the primary source for funding and sending missionaries, so the spiritual health of North America impacts mission work around the globe.
At the North American Mission Board, we see a mission field that needs the hope of the gospel. With your partnership, we’re committed to taking this hope to cities, small towns and college campuses.
Your prayers and gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering provide support for thousands of missionaries. These men and women are planting new churches in unreached communities and meeting needs through compassion ministries. Every day, lives are being impacted and transformed.
The needs are great, but the living hope of Christ is greater. Thank you for reaching out with hope to your own community and for your passionate support for North American Missions.
What is our church doing?
South Side Baptist Church has been giving towards the Annie Armstrong Offering since it's establishment as a church. We get to take part in this offering, one in which that all other Southern Baptist Churches will also participate.
We will be taking up the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering during our Worship Service on March 30. To give towards the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, you can give online starting March 9 or mail in a check or cash to our mailing address (PO Box 2494, South Bend, IN 46680). Please mark that the offering is for the Easter Offering.
Our church's goal this year is $3,500.
We will be taking up the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering during our Worship Service on March 30. To give towards the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, you can give online starting March 9 or mail in a check or cash to our mailing address (PO Box 2494, South Bend, IN 46680). Please mark that the offering is for the Easter Offering.
Our church's goal this year is $3,500.
Where does the money from the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering go?
Every gift to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering—100 percent—goes to train, resource and send thousands of missionaries involved in church planting and compassion ministries across the United States, Canada and their territories. Our partnership with Southern Baptist Convention churches and individuals makes this work possible.
Stories of Missionaries who have been impacted by the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering:
Who is Annie Armstrong?
Each year, we honor the life and advocacy of Annie Walker Armstrong (1850-1938) when we give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® for North American missions. As a tireless servant of God and a contagious advocate and supporter of missions efforts throughout the world, Annie Armstrong led women to unite in missions endeavors that ultimately led to the formation of Woman’s Missionary Union, for which she served as the first corresponding secretary.
Annie believed in and followed Christ with all her heart, but it was her hands that expressed that belief in tangible ways. She spent a great amount of time typing and handwriting letters in support of missions. Many of these letters were quite lengthy and all were filled with conviction that more could and should be done in our missions efforts. Annie also never hesitated to use her hands to reach out to hug a child or distribute food, clothing and the Word of God to those in need. Her hands held her own Bible as she studied to know how best to share Gods love with others. And, most important, Annie was a woman of prayer, folding her hands in prayer to intercede for the missionaries and for those they were helping discover Christ.
Annie rallied churches to give more, pray more and do more for reaching people for Christ. As modern-day missions advocates unite to continue that work today, we can be confident that her legacy will also be ours.
Annie believed in and followed Christ with all her heart, but it was her hands that expressed that belief in tangible ways. She spent a great amount of time typing and handwriting letters in support of missions. Many of these letters were quite lengthy and all were filled with conviction that more could and should be done in our missions efforts. Annie also never hesitated to use her hands to reach out to hug a child or distribute food, clothing and the Word of God to those in need. Her hands held her own Bible as she studied to know how best to share Gods love with others. And, most important, Annie was a woman of prayer, folding her hands in prayer to intercede for the missionaries and for those they were helping discover Christ.
Annie rallied churches to give more, pray more and do more for reaching people for Christ. As modern-day missions advocates unite to continue that work today, we can be confident that her legacy will also be ours.
FAQ
- Reason we give: To support the efforts of the North American Mission Board’s Send North America strategy, as missionaries and church planters push back lostness in the United States and Canada.
- Amount of NAMB budget provided by Cooperative Program: 35%
- Amount of NAMB budget provided by Annie Armstrong Easter Offering: 50%
- Year offering started: In 1895 by WMU®
- Amount given in 1895: $5,000 +
- Year offering named after Annie Armstrong: 1934
- National goal for 2024: $75 million
- Total offering gifts to date: Over $2 billion
Give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering:
Because of the circumstances of life, we will not be taking up the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in person this year. To give towards the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, you can give online starting March 9 or mail in a check or cash to our mailing address. Please mark that the offering is for the Easter Offering.
South Side Baptist Church
PO Box 2494
South Bend, IN 46680
South Side Baptist Church
PO Box 2494
South Bend, IN 46680
