Final total for 2017-2018: $158.9 million.
- That’s not a record. The record is $165.8 million in the year after the missionary personnel drawdown. This year’s is second highest.
- An increase of about $6 million but with a change in counting. IMB aligned their tally with the SBC fiscal year, October 1 to September 30, so churches had a few extra months to give. That should account for some of the increase from last year since some churches give monthly, etc.
- IMB funds about half of it’s budget through the LMCO.
- This is the best offering one can give.
- IMB may be leaderless but not rudderless. SBs express confidence in the work, imperfect though it may be.
- Millenials, I read, spend more money on coffee than on their retirement. Do SB millenials spend more on coffee than Lottie Moon?
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I don’t think former IMB missionary, Mark Terry, will mind my walking on his church name article with news like this.
And how about the ‘stern’ pic of Lottie?
Time to share your post about increasing Lottie giving via the One for Seven idea.
I have given an extra $52 which went to this last offering so I need to do it again this Fall. If this caught fire across SBC churches then we could get to 10,000 IMB workers as then pastor David Platt described in a Chapel message at SEBTS.
https://sbcvoices.com/how-imbs-overseas-workers-could-double-in-number/
No, problem, William. I’m delighted to hear this good news. In the past the cut off date for the LMCO was May 31st. Yes, the Lottie Moon Offering is the locomotive that pulls the IMB train. When we served overseas with the IMB, the missionaries’ first question of any visiting IMB leader was: How did the LMCO do? Actually, the LMCO provides about 55% of the IMB’s budget. I agree that it is the best Kingdom investment any church can make.
I predicted a “small” increase from last year but since IMB changed the closing date to the end of September, I’m declaring that I woulda been on the money but wuz robbed of a sterling, prophetic moment…but who keeps score?
Slice it anyway you want, IMB is solid financially thanks to the generous support of SBs.
Lottie doesn’t look like she’s very pleased that we didn’t meet the goal.