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Planned GrWh In Giving
Key To Bold Mission Success By Terry Barone
AWANCE BACKGRCUND STORY
Baptist Press
1/29/85
D m , Texas (BP)-Planned Grcwth In Giving was wesented as the key to the success uf
Bold Missiori Thrust during a mi&-January natioml seminar in Denton; Texas.
Planned Grmh In Giving is a 15-par plan to challenge Southern Baptists to increase
their level of giving to their local &ur& and through their &ur& to mission causes
4 throughout the world.
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b Cecil Ray, natioml director of Planned Gravth In Giving said the purpose of these
meetings is to equip chosen leership in states to beme trainers and leaders far about 475
state seminars which will be attmded by pastors and congregatiml representatives.
Ray said the state semimrs will key upon the "Church Eventtt--a part af the Planned Grwth
In Giving emmsis when &ur& menbrs are introduced to Planned Grmh In Giving and asked to
make a 15-year ammitment to increase their percentage level of giving to the local &ur&.
Ray said that over the past 30 years, -hem Baptist families have mt changed their
pattern of giving whidz is about a tm peroent average.
He said the tm percent translates into the membership of SBC chur&es giving in excess of
$3 billion in 1933. 33y the year 2000, Ray said that figure needs to be about $20 billion to
accomplish Bold Mission' Thrust tasks.
bld Mission Thrust is an effcart by Southern Ebptists to wesent the message of Jesus
Christ to every person in the wmld by the year 2000.
"Thig muld allm the entire denominatior+the &ur&es and other mtities-to take on the.
dreams of Bold Mission Thrust which we have been talking about," he said. "At the sustained
level (tqprcent),
*I# we can't plll off what we (as a denomination) have planned."
Ha sad Planned GrafJth In Giving is rot "a fund raising drive" but an emphasis hid?
Wgib with "prso~l camnitmmt" and has a canpounding effect throughout the denorrimtion
beginning in the local chur&.
T.T. Crabtree, pastor of First Baptist Church, Springfield, Mo., and &airman of the
ional Planned GrWh In Giving Task Face, said, "Planned Grcwth In Giving was m t cooked up
mi* UE dersominatiorssll lea&rs and is mt a s&me to get mcare money. It is a call
f gan Gad to catlmi t ourselves in a way that we ' ve never done bef me.
"Planned Gravth In Giving, " he said, "is an invitation fran God to beme involved in his
mrk atF+;"level where we've never been befcre."
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