Start watching your church's mail!  
Promotional kits on the 2010 North Carolina Missions Offering will arrive soon!

That means it's time for your church to start getting organized.

True, the North Carolina Missions Offering (NCMO) is scheduled for September, and that's some months away. But here's what you need to know now:

The theme for this year's offering is "Every Nation...Our Generation" and our goal is $2.1 million. That may sound like a lot of money but remember the challenge of Acts 1:8 is a big challenge! There are over 6 billion people in the world and 5.5 million in North Carolina that do not know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. Surely we can all give sacrificially so the world may hear the Gospel. 

The NCMO will help Baptist Men continue doing their great disaster relief work, medical-dental bus ministry and 12 other ministries and NCMO contributions will help plant churches across North Carolina to reach the 234 language groups living in our state.

You'll learn more about how NCMO helps us fulfill the Great Commission through the promotional kit and through www.NCMissionsOffering.org.

But back to the "organized" word.

It's not too early for your church to select a coordinator, or better yet, a group of coordinators. NCMO is not just about support; it's about your church learning about missions!

There's much your coordinators should do soon to introduce NCMO to your church.  For example, possible steps include requesting a special speaker from the Baptist State Convention and taking a group of your church members to one of the Baptist Men missions events during August.

Ask your members to start saving so they can give significantly to the NCMO come September.

Chuck Register
Executive Leader
Church Planting and Missions Development
Baptist State Convention of NC