The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) is the primary way we support mission efforts in North America. One hundred percent of gifts given to AAEO are used to support more than 3,000 missionary families serving across the United States and Canada.
Estimated lost:
286 Million
NAMB and Southern Baptists came together to add:
840 New Congregations
in 2023
And since 2010,
have planted more than
11,000 churches
across North America
Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, are church planting missionaries in West Lafayette, Indiana, the home of Purdue University. “There are 41,000 students here,” Jessamy says, “and most of them are at that stage of life where they’re looking for something to live for. That makes this a perfect place to plant a church.”
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Fred and Casey started a residential recovery and discipleship program for those trapped in addiction and living on the streets of Richmond. It was appropriately enough called “The Fix.” Out of that grew a church plant that now ministers to those in recovery, their families, and the local community. “We’re seeing things we never thought possible,” Fred says. “We have junkies receiving Christ, then never picking up a needle again. Only Jesus can make that happen. He is the ultimate Fix.”
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Will is one of Fred Weymouth’s favorite success stories. They met when Will was at his drug-addicted worst, not long after Fred, along with his wife, Casey, started The Fix, a church plant and residential recovery program aimed at reaching people who are struggling with homelessness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
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Every Friday night, Andrew Mark and his evangelism team— “And when we say, ‘team’ ” he says, “we mean our whole church” —go out to the busy sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops to talk with people. “Answering questions, sharing the gospel,” he says, “it’s our favorite thing to do.”
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Church business meetings are not normally fertile ground for happy accidents.
But Ames Boulevard Baptist Church’s tiny remnant of elderly members unintentionally set a miracle in motion when they voted to hire Troy Gause to mow their grass.
“That’s how I got to know the church,” Troy says. “I started taking care of their property and learned how they’d dwindled down to just a few faithful members. They were probably just a couple months away from closing their doors.”
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Leon and Javon Every had been driving by the Baptist church on Ames Boulevard for years, but they’d never seen anything momentous happening there. It wasn’t until one morning when they noticed a suddenly packed parking lot that their curiosity got the better of them.
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When Oscar Ortiz started Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, he knew one new church would not be enough. Fortunately, Oscar and his wife, Wendy, have help. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is sending volunteer mission teams to Loíza, a needy community where Oscar and Wendy hope to plant another new work. “Loíza is a spiritually dark place,” Wendy says, “but by serving the community, Send Relief is helping open doors for us there. They’re repairing homes and enabling us to build witnessing relationships.”
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God is going above and beyond through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. You are a vital part. Your prayer for a missionary is more than a few spoken words. Your gift is much more than a gift.
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North American missionaries to reach more lost people who need the hope and love of Christ.
North American missionaries to have all the resources and encouragement they need to plant churches and meet needs.
God to call and equip more missionaries to make Jesus known in North America.
Every gift to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering – 100 percent – goes to train, resource and send thousands of missionaries involved in church planting and compassion ministries across the United States, Canada and their territories. Our partnership with Southern Baptist Convention churches and individuals makes this work possible