This is the beginning of a new year with some changes being made in our fund department.
Dues: Regional dues have been changed to $1 per woman of your church and they should be sent to your regional treasurer by June 30th before conference takes place in July. Area dues should be sent to your Area Treasurer.
National Support: These unrestricted contributions keep AB Women’s Ministries going. It pays salaries, rent, buys supplies, pays postage, travel, (including region presidents to annual board meeting) and all the other expenses that keep a national organization like ours going. In short, National Support funds the mission of American Baptist Women’s Ministries.
Mission (refit): AB Women’s Ministries passes along your mission (refit) contributions through International Ministries to “refit” missionaries who are returning to the mission field after their home assignment year and “refit” new missionaries getting situated overseas. Mission (refit) money is also given through National Ministries to new church planters here in the United States to help them as they start a new church.
Student aid: AB Women’s Ministries give scholarships yearly to any female or male that is a member of an American Baptist Church.
Region project: Each year AB Women’s Ministries selects a project to support. This year’s project is schooling for Missionary kids in the amount of $4000. AB Women’s Ministries have some other funds like Vital Partners that can give National Support on a regular basis. Some pay monthly, quarterly and annually. Check into it. There is also an endowment Fund for AB Women’s Ministries.
Don’t forget that Love Gift and it is necessary that each church send it to the Regional Office not to the Region treasurer. The Love Gift is to raise extra funds to strengthen American Baptist mission work.
White Cross is a program of International Ministries and National Ministries that appeals to AB Women’s groups. We hope every church receives and completes White Cross requests for needed supplies and monies for mission sites in this country and around the world.
