$1 million goal set for Texas hunger offering

April 29, 2002

$1 million goal set for Texas hunger offering
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___FLOWER MOUND--The Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission has adopted a $1 million goal for the 2003 world hunger offering.
___The commission approved recommendations regarding the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger in a meeting with its board of consultants advisory panel April 18-19 at the Bishop Mason Retreat Center. The commission is the moral concerns and public policy agency of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___The $1 million goal earmarks $215,000 for community ministries in Texas and bordering communities in northern Mexico, $170,000 for ministries elsewhere in the United States and $465,000 for international hunger projects. It designates $150,000 for emergency response.
___In 2001, Texas Baptists gave $812,815 to the world hunger offering, down 8.5 percent from the previous year. The 2002 offering goal is $1 million, with $900,000 directed to specific projects and $100,000 for emergency response.
___Hunger Consultant Nathan Porter noted that if Texas Baptists reach the $1 million goal for 2003, the offering still would meet less than half the requests submitted. Missionaries, associational directors of missions and community ministries workers had requested more than $2.27 million.
___The 2003 offering earmarks $20,000 each for hunger relief and development ministries in the Baptist associations serving the Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio metro areas, as well as the lower Rio Grande Valley.
___It also designates a total of $95,000 for projects in the areas around Amarillo, Brownwood, Conroe, Corpus Christi, Decatur, El Paso, Freeport, Midland, Odessa and Weatherford.
___Funds for North American ministries include $41,600 for New York, $18,600 for California, $15,000 for Ohio, $14,800 for Wyoming, $14,100 for Louisiana and $10,200 for Tennessee. Other projects are in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Washington, Oregon, South Carolina, West Virginia and Puerto Rico.
___The 2003 offering designates $98,500 for hunger relief and development ministries in Africa. These include food for a day care center that serves orphans in Benin, water for a Baptist high school in Nigeria, agricultural development in the Congo and a resettlement project in Cameroon.
___The offering earmarks $95,000 for projects in Central and South America. This includes $45,000 for Reencontro Educational and Social Ministries in the Niteroi area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Other projects are in Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
___The 2003 offering designates $58,000 for Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, as well as $78,500 for the Far East, $60,000 for Asia, $15,000 for Central Asia, $15,000 for Asia Minor, $13,000 for the Middle East and $8,000 for Australia.
___Of the $465,000 for international hunger relief and development ministries, $155,000 is through Texas Partnerships, including relationships with national Baptist conventions and missionaries serving with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, $178,000 through the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship global missions program, and $132,000 through the Baptist World Alliance.

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