State Missions Offering

2023 Goal: $1.2 Million

2023 Goal:

$1.2 Million

How can you participate?

Oklahoma Baptists demonstrate an unwavering commitment to advancing the gospel within our state by engaging in cooperative giving to support missions. With a shared vision of spreading the message of hope, Oklahoma Baptists sacrificially join together to provide the necessary resources and support for various mission endeavors.

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Dear Oklahoma Baptists,

In Oklahoma, we see lostness and brokenness all around us. We see the same around the world, with countless people who have never
heard the Good News of Jesus. As International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood recently stated, “The world’s greatest problem is lostness.” The challenge to advance the gospel in our state and world today can seem like an insurmountable task that could leave a lone individual or a single church feeling overwhelmed.

Thankfully, Oklahoma Baptists believe that we can do more for the Kingdom of God together than we can apart. Advancing the gospel
and fulfilling the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20) is the major reason Baptists historically agreed to cooperatively work and give together in the first place and is still the major reason why we partner together today.

As His followers, Jesus has given us the command to “go.” We are called to take the gospel across the street and around the world,
bringing the hope and peace that only Jesus can bring (Acts 1:8). Thanks to your generous gifts through the Edna McMillan Oklahoma
State Missions Offering, we are making a gospel impact in key areas, including disaster relief, encouraging multivocational pastors, global missions, and more. The goal for this year’s State Missions Offering is $ 1.2 million. These funds help us address the world’s greatest problem and do so much to fuel mission and ministry in our state.

I want to invite you to join my wife, Jamy, and me in giving to the Oklahoma State Missions Offering. Together, through the cooperative
generosity of our churches, we can reach our State Missions Offering goal and meet the challenges of lostness and brokenness in our state and beyond. Together, we will take the Good News to our neighbors across the street and to people in need around the
world for His glory.

Serving Jesus with You,

Dr. Todd Fisher
Executive Director-Treasurer
Oklahoma Baptists

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:8

Week of Prayer: September 3-10

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CRISIS CARE

Disaster Relief is an impactful ministry that unites Oklahoma Baptists in aiding those affected by disasters across Oklahoma, nationwide, and globally. With a focus on meeting physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, Oklahoma Baptists extend a helping hand to those in distress. In times of disaster, despair often pervades, but your generous support enables volunteers to be the hands and feet of Jesus, guiding those amid tragedy toward the transformative power of the gospel.

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GLOBAL MISSIONS

Oklahoma Baptists have a great heritage of sending missionaries overseas with the International Mission Board. The State Missions Offering assists Oklahoma Baptist churches to connect with missionaries around the globe in an effort to reach the nations. From any town in our state, we can touch the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through praying, giving, and going.

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MULTIVOCATIONAL PASTORS (MVP)

Churches with 125 attendees or fewer that have multivocational pastors (MVP) serve as the vital foundation of the state convention. With over fifty percent of Oklahoma Baptist churches being led by bi-vocational pastors, these dedicated individuals face demanding schedules that often leave little room for fellowship and training events. Through your generous contributions, these pastors and their wives can partake in the encouraging weekend retreat—as well as receive other support and equipping year round—as they take the gospel to the ends of Oklahoma.

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Give to the State Missions Offering through your local church and support the effort to advance the Gospel in Oklahoma.

Pray

Brokenness is an opportunity for Gospel advance. Pray for the brokenness in your community. Ask the Lord what role you can have in reaching others for Jesus.

Plan

While every church cannot meet every need, every church can meet a need. Through the offering, God has an open door for us to enter, shoulder to shoulder, to advance the Gospel. Set a goal to give as we embrace brokenness in our state.

Share

Together, we can increase awareness of opportunities to advance the Gospel. A powerful way to communicate the work Oklahoma Baptists are doing around our state is by sharing mission videos during church gatherings and on social media.

Support

100% of your gift advances the Gospel in Oklahoma. Give to the Edna McMillan State Missions Offering through your church.

About the Edna McMillan State Missions Offering

The State Missions Offering is named for one of its earliest advocates and mission pioneers, Edna McMillan. After graduating with honors from the Huntsville Female College in Alabama in 1890, Edna married a young Baptist man, George McMillan. She respected his quest for Godly character and was inspired when she first met him during a church service where he pledged a generous amount to a special missions offering.

Both of the McMillans became faithful stewards of their time and their resources. George served in church and worked in the oil business. They settled in Muskogee in 1902 and later spent most of their lives in Bristow. Edna held numerous roles in the church and worked diligently and tirelessly for Oklahoma Woman’s Missionary Union. She held many positions in WMU and served as state WMU president for 11 years from 1927 to 1938.

Edna was an effective communicator and consistently challenged Oklahoma Baptists to give generously to state missions. In 1932, she said, “A rich man is one who has enough for himself and enough left over to help others. Though he be possessed of millions, a man is poor, who has only enough for himself.”

The state WMU Board in 1939 met in Muskogee where Edna was surprised to hear the recommendation and later unanimous vote to name the State Mission Offering in her honor. Through her many travels and days away from home to champion mission cause, Edna never accepted a penny for her expenses.

Children have great opportunities in their own neighborhoods and schools to love others and share the Good News of Jesus. The Missions Education Activity Sheets provide engaging activities to open young eyes to missions in their own backyards!
– Edna McMillan

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The following videos feature some of the ministries funded by the Oklahoma State Missions Offering. Please feel free to share these videos on your church website and social media accounts.