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    2010 Budget Allocations

    "Giving to our North American Mission Board provides much needed help in starting language churches, helping needy people and sharing the gospel in a vast, unreached mission field. That vast mission field has the capacity to impact the world and that field is right here where we live. We can do more corporately (churches working together) than any church can do on its own." — Rich Halcombe, director of missions, Metro Columbus Baptist Association, Columbus, Ohio

    Ask missionaries what the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® means to them, and they will readily admit that it is the lifeblood for their service.

    When Southern Baptists place their money in the offering plate, they are in essence placing it in the hands of a missionary. Every dollar given to the AAEO goes to support missionaries on the field. The North American Mission Board works in partnership with state conventions to distribute monies given through the AAEO to missionaries and their efforts.

    Since the offering's inception, more than $1 billion has been received by the North American Mission Board to use in reaching people in North America for Christ. 

    The 2010 national goal for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® is $70 million. Receipts to the 2010 AAEO will fund mission endeavors noted below, and these will in turn lead thousands upon thousands to Christ. 

     

    Missionary Support—$49,700,000—71%

    The largest expenditure of AAEO funds is for salaries (the majority of missionaries are jointly funded by state conventions and NAMB), health benefits, orientation, and ongoing training expenses of mission personnel. 

    Church Planting Support—$11,900,000—17%

    In 2009, Southern Baptists started more than 1,400 new churches. Mission pastors serve English-speaking and language churches in rural and urban settings. Offering funds provide overhead costs for starting a church such as rental of a facility, material, and promotional expenses.

    Evangelism Support—$8,400,000—12%

    Avenues for evangelism are varied. They include church and community ministries, resort ministries, and literacy missions, to name a few. Projects that undergird missionaries’ work, such as sports evangelism, Scripture distribution, special evangelism events, Internet evangelism, and media use are ways missionaries use AAEO funds to impact North America for Christ.