Starting Local, Going Global
While the first Sunday of Advent isn’t until the last Sunday in November, it’s time for the BSBC church family to prepare for our 19th annual “Starting Local/Going Global” Christmas campaign. “Starting Local AND Going Global” provides practical help here in Fredericton and, this year, in Rwanda.
Starting Local
Our “Starting Local” campaign supports the women who take part in our weekly New Life Ministry. This ministry provides a supportive, spiritually encouraging setting where the women who come experience the love of Jesus through our leaders, teaching, prayer and sharing.
Each Christmas, we ask these women to let us know how we can support them in providing gifts and groceries for their household’s Christmas celebration. Normally, we would be asking you to pick up a gift tag, go and buy one of these needed gifts and then return it to the church to be passed on to the appropriate participant. However, again this year due to the pandemic, we’re asking for financial donations that we can use to provide gift cards for each household so that our participants can purchase gifts for their families and receive a Superstore gift card to help with groceries.
We make sure that each household receives sponsorship at a level equal to the approach of the Salvation Army and Greener Village. And, in addition to supporting our New Life participants, any financial gift you designate as “Starting Local” will allow us to provide a Christmas gift to our friends who attend our Third Sunday Supper ministry. Many are unable to connect with families and/or friends during the Christmas season. We hope this remembrance will remind them of God’s love and our love during what can be a challenging time.
It will take $9,000 to meet these goals. Last year’s giving was just over $10,000.
Going Global
Globally, our dollars will make an impact on women in Rwanda facilitating literacy programs that allow them to access a brighter future for their children. More about this will be coming your way in the weeks ahead. For now, just know that any gift you mark “Going Global” will be touching lives in Rwanda. This year’s global project comes at the request of André Sibomana, our Canadian Baptist Ministries’ Partner in Mission.
Last year’s giving to this fund was just over $10,000.
How to give
You can donate to this year's campaign by marking your offering envelope or using the comments section of your etransfer:
Starting Local: Mark your gift "Starting Local"
Going Global: Mark your gift "Going Global"
Both: Gifts marked “Starting Local/Going Global” will be divided equally between projects
Feeling called to make a financial contribution to either project, please return your gift envelope by the morning of Dec. 5 so that we can announce the total giving that evening as part of the “Hanging of the Greens” celebration!
As a church family many of us have great blessings to count...the greatest of which is Jesus’ love in our lives. Can you share that love this Christmas season? We invite you to consider starting local AND/OR going global for Jesus!
Thank you for your assistance,
Your Social Action Team & Mission’s Committee
