February 9, 2000

Annie Offering increases
nationally, down in Texas
___TALLEDEGA, Ala. (BP)--Southern Baptists gave a record $43.55 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions in 1999, reported Bob Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board.
___The agency uses the funds to support more than 5,000 missionaries in the United States and Canada.
___Speaking to the executive board of Woman's Missionary Union meeting in annual session at Shocco Springs Conference Center, Reccord expressed appreciation to WMU--the agency which initiated the missions offering more than 100 years ago.
___"Thank you and your thousands of WMU members across the country for helping Southern Baptists give $43.55 million to the Annie Armstrong Offering last year," Reccord said. "This is the seventh year in a row the offering has set a new record, and we are so wonderfully thankful for what God is doing through this offering to reach people for himself."
___The offering supplies 38 percent of NAMB's budget, with another 34 percent from the SBC's unified giving plan, the Cooperative Program, and the remainder from individual gifts, investments and other income.
___While nationwide giving to the offering was up for the year, contributions given by Texas Baptist churches through the Baptist General Convention of Texas decreased in 1999, falling 1.5 percent, or a total of $91,659. Yet the BGCT still forwarded $5.9 million to the Annie Armstrong offering, nearly 14 percent of the national total.

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