Give to the One Voice Offering
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FAQs
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What is the “One Voice Offering?”
The “One Voice Offering” is a year end appeal to raise significant support for our Global Church Planting.
Take a special offering sometime during the period from Thanksgiving through the beginning of the year. Use a traditional offering during the last period of the year and designate all or part of it for the One Voice Offering (many churches do a Christmas Eve offering or a Christ Birthday offering).
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Who benefits from the offering?
Emerging work with church planting and developing leaders in 54 Countries under the FMCUSA
Assisting work in church planting with 12 General ConferencesAfrica: Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia: Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand & nine Creative Access Countries
Europe: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Sao Tome & Principe, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine & one Creative Access Country
Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay & two Creative Access Countries
Middle East: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Holy Land and three Creative Access countries.
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How is the One Voice Offering Used? “
Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.” (Mark 4:3) Where did he get the seed? Ultimately it had to come from someone else’s harvest. Once you have your first harvest you can set aside part of the harvest for seed. The very first planting of a crop means you must get the seed from somewhere else. When planting churches, the seed is from another’s harvest. Churches plant churches because they have the resources to invest. They plant in a new field. Whether planting churches in the U.S. or planting churches globally we need the initial venture capital resident in a church to help start the work.
This is how the One Voice Offerings are used. The resources for the initial planting comes from already existing churches. They set aside a certain amount to help resource church planters in a new field.
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How much does it cost to fund a planter?
Cost depends on where you are planting. In some areas of the world, we don’t pay church planters. We only pay church-planting trainers. In other areas we pay a living wage for their culture, which can be as little as $150 a month. Regardless of the method employed, the goal is for the new church plant to pay for the existing church and its multiplication.
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What are some specific ways we can help?
Challenge households to give one month of a church planter’s salary ($150) as a year-end gift to the One Voice Offering. As a church, set a goal to give enough to cover one church planter’s salary for a year ($1,800).
Set aside a percentage of an existing year end appeal for the One Voice Offering.
Give away the challenge to the children. Have a contest to raise funds to help plant churches through the One Voice Offering.
Match your giving with prayer. For every $100 raised commit 10 minutes in prayer for World Missions. Request a Prayer Directory by contacting us.
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Where do we send our offering?
Send the funds collected designated for the One Voice Offering to
Free Methodist World Mission, PO Box 51710, Indianapolis, IN 46251
or Give Online.