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Focus scripture: Acts 1:8 and John 8:32
Suggested hymns:
• Freely, Freely - #273 in 1991 Baptist Hymnal
• Set My Soul Afire, Lord - #573 in 1991 Baptist Hymnal
• We Have Heard a Joyful Sound - #581 in 1991 Baptist Hymnal
• Tell the Good News - #566 in 1991 Baptist Hymnal
Promotional Items:
Beginning in 2007 Tennessee Baptist churches were asked to complete a standing order form to receive promotion materials for the three weeks of prayer (for state, national, and international). If someone in your church completed the standing order form and returned it to TN WMU, materials to promote the Week of Prayer for State Missions and the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions will be sent automatically in early July 2010. Promotion materials will include:
- Items will be customized according to your church’s standing order:
1. Number of posters needed
2. Number of offering envelopes needed
3. Number of prayer guides needed
- Items every church will automatically receive:
1. DVD format video with 8 segments of 2-3 minutes in length
2. sample sermon outline
3. age-level teaching guides (adult, youth, children, preschool)
4. churchwide promotion ideas
5. plus more
If your church did not complete the standing order form, a limited number of promotion materials are available by contacting TN WMU (800-558-2090, extension 2038, or 615-371-2038, or email jferguson@tnbaptist.org.
2009 GOTM FINAL TOTAL as of 8/31/10 = $1,533,304 which is 2.6% higher than 2008, but less than the $1.7 million goal by $166,696.
A Brief History:
1902 - Recognizing the urgency of the needs in Tennessee and feeling all Baptists should know about them, Mildred Golden (Mrs. W. C.) suggested a special season of prayer with an offering for state missions just as churches prayed for and gave to foreign missions and home missions. Dr. W. C. Golden was State Missions Secretary at the time; together they prepared and distributed the materials from their home. The first offering received was $800.
1942 - Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union officially named the state missions offering in honor of the Goldens; it became the Golden State Missions Offering (GSMO).
1952 - The offering goal was $35,000. Allocations included camps, rural work, women missionaries, and preachers’ schools.
1962 - The goal of $75,000 included allocations for an international student retreat, student aid at Harrison-Chilhowee Academy, and a church lot fund.
1972 - More than doubling in a decade, the goal of $170,000 included gifts to native Tennessee missionaries, ministry to the deaf, student summer missions, mission center ministries, and special rural and mountain ministries.
1982 - The offering goal was $550,000. Student scholarships were identified for church-related vocations, medical and Acteens. Disaster relief, language missions ministries, ministry to the handicapped, resort missions, scripture distribution, and world witness through the World’s Fair in Knoxville were some of the allocations.
1992 - The offering topped a million with a goal of $1,050,000. Tennessee had a population of 4.9 million. Allocations included homes for the developmentally disabled, mega-focus cities, a site fund for new churches, and seminary extension.
2002 - In the centennial year the offering name was changed to the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions to clarify its purpose and still honor the legacy of Dr. and Mrs. Golden. One-half of the offering of $1.6 million focused on starting new churches.
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