WPC 2014 Mission Giving

One of the highlights of the year comes early.  It is the first meeting of the Mission Committee.   This year we met on January 4 at 7 PM.  We met later in the evening so the carnal minded preacher could watch the Cowboy playoff game with the Lions.  Yeah, the Cowboys won.

OOPS! Off the subject, back to the Mission Committee:  The Westminster congregation demonstrating their generosity and their passion for mission achieved our goal of giving 20% of our operating income to mission.  This means that from our 2014 budget we gave $68,943.  However, when you include special offerings (One Great Hour of Sharing, Christmas Eve, and others) we gave $87,585 to the mission of our Lord through this church. 

The reason the January Mission Committee Meeting is a highlight is that we always have a balance in our mission budget item that needs to be spent from the previous year (2014 this year), to achieve or goal of spending 20% of our operating income on mission.  When we met on Jan. 4 we had to spend $15,919.  What a joy it was to set aside money to send to support:

                Love in the Name of Christ

                Christian Women’s Job Corp
                Health Horizons of East Texas
                Community Rx
                New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children
                Our Samaritan Fund
                New Hope Uganda (we support the ministry of
                                                     Tal Anderson and his family)
                Cho-Yeh (Our Presbytery camp outside of  Livingston)
                Mo-Ranch (Our Synod's conference center in Hunt, Texas)
                Project Belize (to purchase medicine)
                Heartbeat Pregnancy Center (to purchase 30 car seats)
                Bethany International (to support the
                                                        the training of missionaries)
                New Covenant Presbytery

                I constantly give thanks to God for allowing me the cherished gift of serving such a wonderful and generous church as Westminster.

                                Humbly yours,

                                                Steve