June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

GLOBAL OUTREACH
I know there is a strong desire by many across our church to see a recording breaking year!
For a number of years an increase of 5% - 8% over the previous year would have produce the
largest GO offering in history. An increase of 5% yearly since 2007 would have been over 2
million dollars in 2012. This is not an unreasonable expectation for our church as a whole. The
bar is so easily raised. We only need 16,130 IPHC members to give at least an average
American Day’s Wage of $124.00! In bite size pieces, if only 8 people from each of our 2,000+
churches gave the average day’s wage, it’s over $2,000,00.00. Many people make much
more than this average daily wage. Combined with large GO offerings from strategic
churches, we should expect funding to increase by exponential growth.
Only 822 churches, including 3 non-IPHC churches, gave to Global Outreach in 2012. Those
amounts varied from $1.00 to $39,683.69 depending on the church. All praise is to God for
each dollar and manifold blessings to those that gave. However, this scenario could improve
radically with increase from those already giving and initial participation from others. Part of
the purpose of World Missions Ministries is to provide opportunities and avenues, where each
church and its congregation can be vital to world evangelization. Somehow, hearts must be
touched and mindsets changed, where commitment and loyalty are a priority to everyone
in the IPHC movement to accomplish this task. No doubt “Great exploits have been done,”
but “What could have been done, if more had participated.”
A sleeping “Giant” in our midst is the “Day’s Wage.” Let’s trust that others will catch the
vision.
MARATHON 7 FOR CHRIST INCENTIVE/REWARDS PROGRAM
The following report shows all churches and Conference Missions Directors qualifying for
Marathon status in 2012. A special thank you to all who reached Marathon levels in their
giving/increase. Please review report for detailed information.
• 87 churches received Marathon gift cards
• 3 churches qualified for ministry trips by giving 25K or more
• 2 churches qualified for trips by giving 20K or more.
• Churches receiving reward gift cards had a total increase of 170,999.72 and $5,950.00
was sent out in gift cards to pastors.
The total for conferences that had increase was $55,451.68 and we sent out $1,100.00 in gift
cards to 10 CMDs.
Total Marathon gift card payout was $7,050.00 for 2012 giving. The cost of 5 ministry trips will
be added to this expense.
Note: Though a good number of churches had increase others decreased in their giving.
Please see the attached table showing the recipients and gifts awarded.
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