State Missions Offering

2024 Goal: $1.2 Million

2024 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,

As I serve in my role, I am blessed and amazed to see how God is building His Kingdom through churches all across our great state. We truly are advancing the gospel together! One of the most unique and special aspects of who we are as Southern Baptists is the way we choose to cooperate.

A wonderful example of this is how we come together each year to give to the Edna McMillan State Missions Offering (SMO). The SMO enables us as churches and individuals to be part of something much bigger than ourselves.

When you give to the SMO, you are making a deep and wide-ranging impact for the advancement of the gospel here in our state and across the globe:

When a tornado recently destroyed principal businesses in Marietta as well as the hospital and community food bank, requests for food assistance went from 40 people a week before the tornado to 250 a week afterward. SMO funds were used to provide food to help our churches meet the needs of their community and share the gospel.
Thanks to assistance of SMO funds, individuals with special needs are able to participate in the annual Camp Perfect Wings at CrossTimbers where they hear about Jesus’ love for them and His gospel.
As our state grows in population and ethnic diversity, the SMO helps affinity ministries reach people of every background with the gospel and be equipped for ministry.

These are just some of the many ways the SMO is making a difference for the Kingdom of God. Through giving to the SMO, churches can be part of incredible and far-reaching missions and ministries. We truly do more for the Kingdom cooperating, serving, and giving together!

Paul told the Ephesian elders, “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’” (Acts 20:35). As we give to this special offering, my prayer is that the Lord will use it to further strengthen the work He is already doing in Oklahoma and around the world.

Serving Jesus with You,

Dr. Todd Fisher
Executive Director-Treasurer
Oklahoma Baptists

“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.'”

Acts 20:35

Week of Prayer: September 1-8

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AFFINITY MINISTRIES

To advance the gospel, regional evangelism conferences and training events are hosted for African American, Native American, and Hispanic communities. These events are designed to equip, encourage, and inspire evangelism within these groups. By addressing their unique cultural contexts and spiritual needs, the goal is to foster confident and passionate evangelists who can effectively share their faith and strengthen the gospel’s impact throughout the state.

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CAMP PERFECT WINGS

Camp Perfect Wings is a weekend camp for children and adults, ages 8 and up, with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The camp includes tailored games, activities, worship, and Bible teachings. Each camper is paired with a buddy to help them fully participate. Camp Perfect Wings creates an environment where campers experience the love of Christ. Funds are used to keep the camp affordable for campers and their families and to cover the camp fees for the buddies who make the camp possible.

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HUNGER FUNDS

Hunger is a real issue across Oklahoma, with hungry people and struggling families needing help with food supplies. Hunger Funds provides resources for local churches to establish a ministry for those in need. Through this ministry, churches can meet physical needs, creating an opportunity to address spiritual needs and advance the gospel in their communities. This initiative helps to support and develop opportunities to minister to those facing food insecurity. Oklahoma Baptists partner together to fight hunger and share the gospel through food pantries and food serving lines across 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.