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Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions
Week of Prayer for State Missions
Tennessee Baptists contributing through the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions provide invaluable financial support for Tennessee ministries. The Week of Prayer for Tennessee Missions is a concentrated time of prayer for Tennessee Baptists, which coincides with the offering. The Golden Offering is collected all year with a special emphasis during the Week of Prayer.
Standing orders for 2024-25 GOTM promotion materials will begin mailing at the end of July. Churches that do not have a standing order, can contact Jacki Holleman to order materials.
The 2024-25 Golden Offering begins on September 1st.
The Week of Prayer for State Missions suggested dates are September 8-15.
The 2024-25 GOTM information and promotion material should be available at GoldenOffering.org by the end of July.
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Pray for Tennessee Missions and Ministries
Download the TBMB July 2024 monthly prayer calendar for TBMB ministries supported by gifts from Tennessee Baptists through the Golden Offering and Cooperative Program.
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Leadership Development OpportunitiesNational WMU offers a variety of opportunities for missions discipleship leaders to discover and expand their leadership skills and spiritual gifts – from online on-demand courses, to print and digital resources, to in-person training.
How to Lead: The training resources, tips, and planning guides provided on the How to Lead webpages, with links provided below, will help you start and lead missions discipleship in your church. The resource materials are provided as downloadable files (PDF, PowerPoint, etc.) that you can simply view on screen or download to your device to use or print.
Online On-Demand Courses:
Tennessee WMU staff and other state WMU leaders are available to help start and strengthen missions discipleship in your church.
Email Jacki Holleman at jholleman@tnbaptist.org to let us know how we can assist you.
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Great Commission Conversation:
Send Relief Memphis Ministry Center
June 19, 2024
11:00-11:30 AM CSTJoin us on July 17th at 11:00 am central time for a Great Commission Conversation as we hear from Ministry Center Coordinator of Send Relief Memphis, Sonya Abram. After telling us about her ministry, we will pray for her, her family and the ministry.
The conversation via video conference will last approximately 30 minutes. You can stay the whole time or come in and out of the meeting, as needed. After the live video conference meeting, a recorded version of the meeting will be placed online for others to view.
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| Christmas in August
Are you looking for a missions project for the people in your church or small group? Are you looking for a way to support missionaries as a family or individual?
Christmas in August provides a way for you to directly help North American Mission Board missionaries by sending them supplies they need for their ministries. Most often, these supplies are needed in bulk.
It’s so simple!
1. Start with prayer.
2. Click here to select one or more of the NAMB missionaries for 2024. You will notice a Tennessee NAMB/Send Relief missionary on the list this year: Sonya Abram, Ministry Center Coordinator, Send Relief Memphis.
3. Promote your missions project at church and in your community.
4. Gather items during the month of August, then pack and ship them.
Your gifts will have an eternal impact!
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Project HELP is an initiative of WMU that identifies a critical issue and seeks to raise the level of awareness of that issue and provides practical approaches anyone can implement to open the door to meeting needs and sharing the gospel. The current Project HELP critical issue is Mental Health.
Each training has only 30 spots available, and the cost is $10, which covers your lunch.
Adult MHFA - click to register
Mental Health First Aid for adults is an 8-hour training that teaches people how to recognize signs of mental health or substance use challenges in adults 18 and older, how to offer and provide initial help, and how to guide a person toward appropriate care, if necessary. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, psychosis, and addiction.
Youth MHFA - click to register
Youth Mental Health First Aid is a 7-hour training for adults who regularly interact with young people ages 12-18, youth ministers/workers, parents, teachers, school staff, etc. This training will introduce common mental health challenges for youth, review typical adolescent development, and teach a 5-step action plan to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders, and eating disorders.
Click here for other opportunities provided by Tennessee WMU, National WMU, and association/church WMU groups to raise awareness and to equip you to lead and champion mental health initiatives in your church and community.
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| Connection 2024
Save the Date
September 13-15, 2024
Tennessee Tech BCM
Register now
Bring your girls to be encouraged and challenged on how to live a
life that is VIBRANT, inside and out, to know God and reflect Christ’s beautiful brightness to a hurting world.
Meet missionaries, get deep into God’s Word, have fun together, participate in a mission project, and choose from a variety of breakout sessions to help teenage girls live life God’s Way: VIBRANT!
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Did you know that nearly 1 in 5 kids in Tennessee live in poverty?
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE in a child’s life by giving the gift of a Christmas Backpack. Click here for more information.
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| Global Hunger Sunday
Join us on August 25th as we give to fight hunger here in Tennessee and abroad on Global Hunger Sunday. Materials and ideas to help promote this special day of giving are available here.
For materials geared just to Tennessee, visit the Compassion Ministries site. To ensure that your gifts help those in Tennessee, along with needs elsewhere, click here and designate to the Global Hunger Relief Fund.
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| Children’s Missions Day 2024
Join thousands of kids across the country in hands-on ministry in your community for Children’s Missions Day, September 21, 2024.
The new Missions Journey: Kids Annual Planning Kit 2024–25 available here includes project ideas, learning activities, and promotional tools for your CMD event. Visit here for more information about 2024 Children’s Missions Day.
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your strength and with all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself’” (Luke 10:27 NIrV).
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| Women's Hiking Trip: Missions and Ministry Leaders
October 4-5, 2024
Make plans now to join us this fall for a weekend of hiking with other women in ministry in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park! Space is limited, so don't wait. $85 includes a night at the Carson Springs lodge, van transport to the trailheads, and three meals.
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| RA Camp-O-Ree
Make plans now for your boys to attend the 2024 RA Camp-O-Ree on October 18-20 at Linden Valley Baptist Conference Center.
RA Camp-O-Ree (RAC) is an exciting event for boys in grades 1-12 that combines camping, missions, adventure, and fun for Royal Ambassadors, Challengers, or other organized boy’s group in Southern Baptist churches.
Click here to download and print a promotional flyer.
RAC is planned and hosted by Mid-South Royal Ambassadors in partnership with Tennessee WMU and Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
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Resources and Opportunities
Resources
- The July WMU mission focus is on the ministry of Victor and Madeline Hawthorne in Southeast Asia. Click here to download resources and information to help your group learn more about them and to pray for their ministry.
- Kids Missions eXperience (KMX): To the Rescue is a free kit to help you host a children's missions event that focuses on Disaster Relief ministries here in Tennessee and around the world! The event kit helps you plan a fun and interactive missions learning experience for your elementary school age children. It includes a leader guide with a Bible story, a missionary focus story and video, corresponding games and interactive activities, crafts, songs, ideas for decor, praying for missionaries, and leading your children to do their own missions outreach event locally. Click here for more information on how to get your free downloadable materials.
- Visit the Tennessee WMU Resources page on our website for Great Commission Conversation videos, prayer walking resource, and more.
- Download the WorldCrafts and the Christian Job Corps monthly prayer calendars and pray for these ministries. Use the NAMB prayer calendar as a guide to pray for NAMB’s missionaries, church planters, and chaplains. Use this IMB prayer calendar to help you pray for the least reached.
Ministry Opportunities
- Tennessee WMU is partnering with Baptist Collegiate Ministries to collect snack foods to help reach students. Click here for more information on locating and contacting your local BCM.
- Sign up for Compassion Ministries Bulletin Board quarterly email to connect with other churches and ministries. Contact Carrie Kidd.
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