May 24, 2006
 

Dear Pastor and Church Treasurer:

The Mobile Baptist Association Budget and Finance Committee are beginning to work on the 2007 Budget. As in your church, it is much easier to accurately budget based on anticipated income.

We are requesting each member church to complete the attached card and return it to the MBA office in the postage paid envelope as soon as your 2007 Missions Budget has been decided. We know for many of you that will be in September or October. At the end of May, we will be $16,000 under the anticipated income from the churches. Attached is the year to date giving report.

As you move toward a church “tithe to missions,” the national standard is giving the local association 3 percent of undesignated gifts and 7 percent to the Cooperative Program. Many of you already exceed the Cooperative Program amount. You also have seen the advantages of a cooperative system in the response to Katrina that helped all of our damaged churches.

As you know, our associational staff is providing outstanding leadership in biblical prayer, evangelistic ministries, church development, church planting, and partnership missions. In the past year, your cooperative gifts have allowed the MBA staff to begin extensive training options, assisted churches in transition and in crisis, enlisted seven new member churches, coordinated massive response to Katrina, and ministered to pastors and their families.

Together, we are moving toward the MBA goal of praying for and sharing Jesus with every person in Mobile County by 2012.

Please help us plan and budget accurately.

In Him,

Mike Bedford, Chair
Ed Baxley
Paul Carter
Becky Hale
Charles Harvey
Don Jones
Larry Lim
Kirk Shaw
Charles Story
Teddie Turrentine
Barbara Vickery
Thomas Wright