April 25, 2024
DULUTH, Ga. – The Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s Mission Georgia team has scheduled a series of webinars in September to provide information about options available to churches that want to help some of the state’s most vulnerable residents.
The webinars are being offered in conjunction with the September emphasis on the Mission Georgia offering, which allows congregations to support efforts to spread the gospel within the state in the same way that the Annie Armstrong and Lottie Moon offerings are used to share Jesus in North America and around the world.
“We have so many people living here in Georgia who are surviving in unthinkable circumstances, who need us to come alongside them to offer tangible help as well as the hope that comes with knowing Christ,” said Beth Ann Williams, the state Mission Board strategist who leads Georgia Baptist Women. “It breaks our hearts to hear about children being neglected or abused by drug-addicted parents or young girls being trafficked for sex right here in our state. These children need Georgia Baptists to step up.”
On Tuesday at noon, Mission Georgia foster care mobilizer Tera Melber will lead a webinar that delves into why churches are seeing rising numbers of troubled children and teenagers. Melber will that childhood trauma is the root of the problem, and she will seek to equip adults who are called to care for, teach, foster, adopt, share the gospel with, and disciple troubled kids.
On September 21 at 10 a.m., the state Mission Board will bring together some of the people involved in providing maternity homes for expectant mothers of any age who opt to give birth rather than seek abortions. Churches will hear how they can bring a maternity home into their own communities.
On September 28 at 10 a.m., Georgia Baptists will be given insights into human trafficking in the state, what’s being done to rescue people from this form of modern-day slavery, and how churches can be involved.
“These problems are greater than any one of us can solve by ourselves,” Williams said. “But by joining together, our 1.4 million Georgia Baptists can make a huge difference. That’s why September has been aside as a time to pray for and give to the ministry of Mission Georgia.”
With the pandemic subsiding and worship attendance on the rise, Georgia Baptist churches are poised to potentially top the $1.25 million given last year through the Mission Georgia offering.
Already this year, churches have contributed more than $600,000.
Financial gifts to Mission Georgia are used to get the gospel to some of the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people in the state.
To learn more about the Mission Georgia webinars or to register go to https://www.missiongeorgia.live/mgseptemberseries.
