*CANCELLED* BFM Winter Missions Conference 2024
** UPDATE 01/02/2024 **
The previously announced Winter Conference has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond the church’s control. However, this gives us another opportunity to thank the faithful saints at Park Ridge Baptist Church and Pastor Ben Glover for hosting this Conference for decades in the interests of BFM. They love the Lord, and they love the missionaries who partner with BFM. Lord willing, we look forward to seeing you at future BFM Conferences this year to be announced at a later date.
[ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT]
JANUARY 14-15-16-17, 2024
PARK RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH
3629 Crystal Street | Gotha, FL 34734
Ben Glover, Pastor | 407-719-9861 | bentonglover@aol.com
There are various prices and discounts for hotels within the area. The hotels with
better rates are by the Universal Studios, which is only about 10-15 minutes away.
Once available, a full schedule can also be found on the Calendar tab on our website.
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News & Reports – December 2023
The Online Edition of the December 2023 BFM News & Reports is available at the link below.
*Remember you can click on any headline to view the post/letter on our website.
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BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS
Please join us in our prayers to God for His continued – and increased – blessings on Baptist Faith Missions under our new leadership who will assume their ministry responsibilities in January 2024.
Pastor David Pitman (who also serves as our Field Representative) will be serving as our President succeeding Randy Jones who has served for the past twelve years. Pastor Philip duBarry will be serving as Executive Secretary succeeding Dave Parks who has served for the past twenty-four years.
In addition, Pastor Jonathan Turner will begin serving as our Vice-President.
All of these faithful servants of the Lord and BFM are pastors, BFM Directors, and “messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ” (2 Corinthians 8.23).
We are excited to see what the Lord has in the store for BFM in the years to come as we continue to partner with sending churches and their missionaries to go into the nations of the world to make disciples and establish New Testament churches for the Glory of God … and all in prayerful and confident dependence on the Grace of God.
We have never been more mindful of our need of God’s sovereign provision (“…for without Me, you can do nothing” John 15.5); and never more confident that He will supply it “according to His riches in Glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4.19).
We all are renewing our prayers to God to ‘enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes” (Isaiah 54.1-2; Galatians 4.26-27). And we are also renewing our commitment to “Attempt great things for God; Expect great things from God.” Thank you for your continued partnership with us!
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2023-24 Thanksgiving Offering Update (November)
2023-24 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE: $13,618.42
You have contributed $13,618.42 to our 2023-24 Thanksgiving Offering as of this writing, November 21st. We know that others of you have yet to receive your Thanksgiving Offerings, especially you who give as a church body. Thank you all for your generous participation and contributions!
WE NEED TO REACH FOR OUR $50,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL! Will you pray about and consider giving your personal offering toward the THANKSGIVING OFFERING?
Please prioritize your most generous Thanksgiving Offering right now while it is on your heart!
(Read more about our Thanksgiving Offering by clicking here.)
Giving Options:
You can give your Thanksgiving Offering either through your church’s offering, or by mailing your personal check to our Treasurer, or by giving online through our website www.bfmnow.org ‘Give’ tab and typing in Thanksgiving Offering in the memo field.
Click here to make a one-time donation.
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Thanksgiving Offering Appeal
WE NEED TO REACH FOR OUR $50,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL!
Will you pray about and consider giving your personal offering toward the THANKSGIVING OFFERING?
There is just no way that we can exaggerate or over-state the importance of our Thanksgiving Offering. The Thanksgiving Offering is indispensable if we are to maintain providing our missionaries with the levels of service and benefits we are giving them now – and we certainly can’t increase the benefits we give them without a very generous Thanksgiving Offering.
All the offerings given to the Thanksgiving Offering go directly toward the support of our missionaries by funding the commitments, benefits, and services we give them over the course of the next year.
Consider these truths:
- All the commitments, benefits, and services we give our missionaries are funded through offerings and contributions given to the Missionary Support Fund
- The only contribution streams that supply the Missionary Support Fund are the monthly offerings given to the Missionary Support Fund and the THANKSGIVING OFFERING
- The monthly Missionary Support Fund contributions do not sustain all the accrued annual disbursements for the commitments, benefits, and services we give our missionaries
- Therefore, we need and depend upon the THANKSGIVING OFFERINGS to make up for the monthly deficits we will incur in providing the commitments, benefits, and services we give our missionaries over the upcoming year
- This year’s THANKSGIVING OFFERING will make up for next year’s monthly deficits in Missionary Support Fund contributions and disbursements
- IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE SUFFICIENT THANKSGIVING OFFERING FUNDS NOW IN ADVANCE OF NEXT YEAR’S DISBURSEMENTS, THEN WE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO REDUCE THE COMMITMENTS, BENEFITS, AND SERVICES WE GIVE TO OUR MISSIONARIES
- we have no other reserves, subsidies, or endowments to draw from or fall back on
- we cannot borrow money to operate
- So, it is essential that we all give as generously as possible so our missionaries’ needs will be supplied
- Will you give a generous personal THANKSGIVING OFFERING right now?
- and, at the same time, may we encourage you to commit to making monthly offerings to the Missionary Support Fund!
- Your missionaries’ needs will be met – and thanksgivings to God will abound and increase and continue!
Giving Options:
You can give your Thanksgiving Offering either through your church’s offering, or by mailing your personal check to our Treasurer, or by giving online through our website www.bfmnow.org ‘Give’ tab and typing in Thanksgiving Offering in the memo field.
Click here to make a one-time donation.
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68th Annual Thanksgiving Missions Conference
68th Annual Thanksgiving Missions Conference
November 13th – 14th – 15th, 2023
New Hope Baptist Church
Dearborn Heights, MI – Pastor Terry Adkins
CONFERENCE THEME:
REDEEMED HOW I LOVE TO PROCLAIM IT
“O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon His Name: make known His deeds among the people.”
– Psalm 105:1 –
Do you have any questions about Baptist Faith Missions, about who we are and what we do? Please join us at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday for our BFM advisory meeting (bring your questions and/or suggestions). EVERYONE IS INVITED TO ATTEND.
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13TH
5:00p.m. Dinner
6:30p.m. Music
6:45p.m. Singing
7:15p.m. Message, Pastor George Sledd
Jordan Baptist Church; Sanford, FL
8:00p.m. Singing
8:25p.m. Message, Missionary Bobby Wacaser
Curitiba, Brazil
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14TH.
9:30a.m. Singing
9:45a.m. Message, Pastor Peter Santisteban
Victory Baptist Church; Russellville, KY
10:30a.m. Worshipping in Song
11:00 – 11:10a.m. Break
11:10a.m. Message, Pastor Mark Pyles
Grace Baptist Church; Fairborn, OH
Noon Lunch
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 14TH
1:30p.m. BFM Open-Forum Advisory Meeting
All are welcome to attend.
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14TH
5:00p.m. Dinner
6:30p.m. Music
6:45p.m. Singing
7:15p.m. Message, Lay Pastor Dave Parks
Buck Run Baptist Church; Frankfort, KY
8:25p.m. Message, Missionary Mike Creiglow
Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15TH
9:45a.m. Music
10:00a.m. Singing
10:15a.m. Message, Pastor David Sears
Immanuel Baptist Church; Monticello, KY
11:00a.m. Singing
11:15a.m. Message, Pastor David Pitman
Addyston Baptist Church; Addyston, OH
Noon Lunch
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JUNE IS VETERAN MISSIONARIES PENSIONERS OFFERING MONTH
JUNE IS VETERAN MISSIONARIES PENSIONERS OFFERING MONTH
[or formerly known as FOUNDERS MONTH OFFERING]
Please give as generously as you can for the continuing support of our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners
Contribute to the 2023 VETERAN MISSIONARIES PENSIONERS OFFERING
“Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.” Psalm 71.18
June is the month for appealing for our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Offering. And, we are fervently appealing to you on their behalf. Please read this appeal with an open heart, asking God how he wants you to give – and to give you something to give.
What is the Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Offering? That name may be a little new and unfamiliar to you, but it is the same offering that has before been called Founders Month Offering. They are two names for the same offering and are used for the same purpose. We will continue to link this offering to the Founders Month Offering name, but we do want to make our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Offering more prominent.
Here’s why: this offering is allocated to providing service pensions for our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners. We have a number of Veteran Missionaries who have given a substantial portion of their lives in missionary service for Christ in partnership with BFM. BFM gives them a modest service pension as a token of our love and gratitude for their service.
However, their pensions are NOT supplied from the monthly Missionary Support Fund that supplies the needs of our current active missionaries. The pensions for the Veteran Missionaries Pensioners are funded from a separate investment account that has been established for that sole purpose. And, all the funds that are allocated and deposited into that Veteran Missionaries Pension Fund are disbursed for that purpose.
Currently, we have six (6) pensioners, and every month, there is a disbursement of $11,590.00 to fund their service pensions. That amount, even on a good month, is double the amount of growth we receive on the investment base in that account.
And, as a side note here – you know what a hit investment accounts have taken over the course of last year, and that decline/loss activity only makes our attention and generosity toward our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners all the more urgent.
Here is another way we are going to expand our participation in this Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Offering. We will continue to ask you to give your most generous gifts in the memory of our founders: H. H. Overbey and Z. E. Clark.
But, we want to expand it further by encouraging you to give gifts both:
- “In Memory Of…” someone who is now with the Lord … and
- “In Honor Of…” someone who may still be living, but whose love and service for BFM you would like to honor. It can be any faithful servant of the Lord.
For example: you could give your most generous gift “In Memory Of…”
- Hafford Overbey and Z. E. Clark
- a former BFM missionary who is now with the Lord
- a former Director of BFM who is now with the Lord
- a family member, loved one, or friend who is now with the Lord
Or, you could give your most generous gift “In Honor Of…”
- a current BFM Veteran Missionary Pensioner
- a current missionary
- a current Director, pastor, or other servant of the Lord whom you wish to honor
All of these gifts will be allocated to and deposited in the Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Fund and will be used to continue to support them in their senior years.
So, who are you thinking of right now – either with the Lord or still serving the Lord – whom you would like to memorialize or honor with an offering that will be used to fund the service pensions of our Veteran Missionaries Pensioners?
Pray about and prepare your most generous offering.
You can contribute your Veteran Missionaries Pensioners Offering via:
- through our online website portal [GIVE NOW]
- through your church’s collective offering [if your church is receiving one]
- by USPS mail to Pastor George Sledd, Treasurer | P. O. Box 471280 | Lake Monroe FL 32747-1280
And, would you prayerfully consider making your gift toward our Pensioners recurring? Our disbursements of $11,590 toward supplying their modest service pensions recur every month!
And, as always, thank you for giving to the Lord!
– your BFM Directors
Baptist Faith Missions Veteran Missionaries Receiving Pensions
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MEET YOUR “VETERAN MISSIONARIES PENSIONERS” BENEFICIARIES OF YOUR “FOUNDERS MONTH OFFERINGS”
We are frequently asked: “What are you doing to continue giving our Veteran Missionaries assistance, especially financial assistance, in their senior years? How do you assist them? Through what means do you assist them? How can I help assist them?”
The short answer to that question for those who served long enough to vest into our traditional retirement/pension plan is: “We continue to honor and assist them by giving them a monthly ‘service pension’ for the remainder of their lives – and for which spouse may outlive the other.”
This is just a small way we can honor them and show our love and appreciation to them for the years of service they gave to Christ in partnership with BFM.
Many of you have known our Veteran Missionary Pensioners for decades. You have not only known them, but you have loved them, fellowshipped with them, served with them, hosted them in your churches and in your homes, and have contributed to their missionary support.
We still have six current Veteran Missionary Pensioners to whom we are giving this honor:
- Asa and Lucia Bratcher
- Bobby Creiglow (Betty is with the Lord)
- Harold and Ursula Draper
- Paul and Wanda Hatcher
- Sheridan and Anita Stanton
- Wanda Turner (Richard is with the Lord)
[Click on their names to learn more about their missionary service and where they are now.]
The “Veteran Missionary Pensioner” account is not funded through the regular monthly offerings given to BFM, but rather through a separate investment account that is established for that purpose.
Currently, every month, there is a disbursement of $11,590.00 to fund their service pensions. That amount, even on a good month, is double the amount of growth we receive on the investment base in that account.
Would you help us with this expression of our love for them? When you designate your offerings for ‘’Veteran Missionaries Pension’ or for ‘Founder’s Month Offering’ [they are the same], they will be applied toward the continuing and on-going financial honor and support of these faithful life-long servants of Christ.
Your missionaries and their families have served and sacrificed greatly on your behalf during their productive years. Please make a small financial sacrifice for your missionaries in their senior years by giving to the Founders Month Fund.
And, there’s MORE you can do to encourage them! Pray for them! Reach out to them through every means you can (call, write, email), and let them know you still appreciate them and their service. They would love to hear from you personally, or from your Sunday School class, or your church’s Pastor/leadership.
Thank you for sharing with them!
You can make a secure donation online with a check or credit card. Just click the “Give” tab on our homepage at www.bfmnow.org.
Click here to give now or you can mail your offering to:
BFM, c/o George Sledd
P.O. Box 471280
Lake Monroe, FL 32747-1280
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