Missions Day Offering 2010
Help Launch the next century of missions at RMM!
Missions offerings started small in CMC. In 1915, five years after the conference was founded, the fledgling conference was still exploring ways to go about missions. Although outreach was emphasized from the beginning, a formal missions agency was years away. So that year the offering was designated for “charitable purposes,” and came to a grand total of $44.
A few years later, there was an offering of $440 toward paying for a children’s home and establishing a new missions fund. Many years later, in 2010, our goal for Missions Day Offering is a little higher yet—$440,000.
If this figure seems high, it’s because it is nearly double the usual offering. In 2008, the Missions Day Offering came to $267,000, and in 2009 it was $237,500. But as we approach the next century of CMC missions, we are expanding, and that growth comes with a price tag.
Part of that price tag is paying for new programs and initiatives at the Rosedale International Center (RIC), our new training facility. We are excited about expanding REACH, bringing in more groups for City Challenge, and offering more training for missions workers.
Our goal for this year’s Missions Day Offering is to celebrate CMC’s 100th anniversary with a one-time landmark offering of $440,000 that will serve as a springboard for the next century. About half of the goal ($240,000) would go toward RMM’s general fund as usual. And anything we receive over that amount would go toward the new training and programs at the RIC.
Things have changed a lot since 1910. CMC has commissioned RMM as an agency with a clear vision for international church planting. That vision has been backed by a generous increase in support from the conference. That offering of $44 in 1915 would be about $950 in today’s value. The $440 donated in 1919 would be worth about $5,500. Today, we are blessed every year with offerings in the hundreds of thousands. We are grateful.
