50/50

Peachtree will be five years old this April. From day one, 10% of our congregational giving has been designated for missions.

While I was in seminary, Robertson McQuilkin (author of The Great Omission, former president of Columbia International University, and champion for overseas missions) challenged us future pastors to shoot for as a life goal 50% of our church's budgets to go to missions.

Certainly the needs of the unreached in the 10/40 Window are great, and it has been my experience that one of the greatest obstacles to the Gospel advancing is the support needed for missionaries who desire to Go.

Why not? We are the most blessed Christians on earth. What if we sacrificed our niceties so that the called may go.

Now, I am not against us investing in ministry here (I am called to be a church planter in North America!)

And as our student pastor, Brian Bolden, says, "Doesn't matter if your lost in China or Villa Rica...you're still lost"

I guess there's two ways to look at it...We can send more money for the Mission overseas by:
1) spending less here and/or
2) giving more

What if, in Year 6-10, we asked the Lord to allow us to increase our missions giving by 1% of the budget every year (or 2% or more?)

Year Percent toward Overseas Missions
6 11
7 12
8 13
9 14
10 15

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