STL 2012 Contributions
January - $2,916.74
February - $4,940.36
February - $7,524.23
Total To-Date - $15,381.33
2011 Total: $57,963.06
STL 2010 Complete Projects
• Tamara Henkes - Romania - Toyota RAV 4
• Steve Kramer - Netherlands - 3 Wheel Scooter
• Portland Teen Challenge Metro Center - 15 passenger van - $32,500
Speed the Light - 2010
Speed the Light is a missions education or missions discipleship program for youth within the Assemblies of God. STL provide resources to help teach youth and kids about missions while supporting Oregon missionaries on the field of ministry around the world.
We are currently in need of raising $444,000 in STL funds for approved missionary projects. Each year we select certain missionaries, which have waited up to 4 years, as our "Adopt a Missionary" projects for the year.
Here are the current Adopt a Missionary projects we will focus on for 2011. Click on each project to read more about that project and download resources to help your ministry adopt these missionaries:
• Jim Billings Latin America - $22,000
Video:
Missions 1:2:3 Strategy
How do children's ministries use BGMC in their churches to effectively raise funds for missionaries, teach about finances, and not burden the church?
Here is how: it’s called Missions 1:2:3.
What is Missions 1:2:3?
Simply it is: 1 leader, 2 minute sermons, and 3 month goals.
1 Leader:
This ideally is a children's pastor/worker who can empower volunteer leaders, and students. This is a leader who can make a faith-stretching goal, a leader who can model the desired behavior before their kids. This most likely will need to be a key leader.
2 Minutes:
You ask, “Why not once a month? Why each week?” Each week creates a habit that is important. Some kids may want to give but might not be present the week you receive the offering, if it’s done only once a month. Plus, receiving the offering each week keeps the need in front of them.
Take 2 minutes to present an offering sermon. This is not a typical offering appeal, but a mini-sermon. To help you with these 2 minute offering sermons, Next Generation Ministries has developed 52 offering sermons. This way all you will need to do is schedule time for the offering, present the 2 minute sermon and receive the offering each week. To began receiving those offering sermons each month please contact the Next Generation Ministries office.
3 Month Goals:
There is nothing magical about 3 months; it’s simply easy for kids to remember shorter goals then year-long goals. 3 month goal setting is something you can repeat throughout the year. Maybe have a 3 month goal focus 3 to 4 times a year.
Now, you may be wondering, what role do church offerings and fundraisers play? If we follow the Missions 1:2:3 strategy this becomes the foundation of giving; the church offering becomes the cheering section and a couple well planned fundraisers become icing on the cake rather then the cake itself.
Let’s make sure to teach this Next Generation to be biblical givers; To give in a way that honors and pleases God.
