The church received an estimated $895,000 in World Ministries Mission Tithes in September, continuing the significant improvement in contributions we experienced in August. Three months into the new fiscal year, we are 10 percent ahead of the budget of $9.8 million. If this trend continues through the year, the worldwide mission of the church will be strengthened. Thank you very much for your faithful giving.

How are we living our mission today?

• Youth in the Mid-Atlantic Mission Center, led by full-time field ministers, made a youth venture to Africa, bringing life-changing experiences to those who went and those they met.

• Young adults provide teaching ministry in India through WorldService Corps.

• Destiny of HOPE, part of the Imani Mission in Columbia, Missouri, offers outreach and compassionate ministries to the community.

The congregational financial officer should give an update about the congregation’s budget at this time. Highlight positive things that have happened in addition to items that need attention.

From Mark 12:41–44 adapted (NRSV): we read: [Jesus] sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury…A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins…Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Sharing our offerings equally between local and world ministries changes lives around the world. Let us share in the prayer of blessing on our offering.