What Are the Mission Offerings?
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The Adventist Church is built on mission. Our commission comes from Christ, who told us to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” Mark 16:15 NIV. Sharing God’s love around the world is like a vehicle. It needs fuel to propel it. Our mission offerings are the fuel that propels almost every aspect of outreach. Without that fuel, our best efforts are hampered.
Every Sabbath following the Children's Story, the children collect the Mission Offering (previously collected during the Sabbath School classes), which goes to the designated division for that quarter. On the last Sabbath of every quarter, a special 13th Sabbath Mission Offering is collected, a portion of which goes to the special projects for that division.
Current Quarter: Southern Asia-Pacific Division
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering on Saturday, June 28 will support four projects in the Southern Asia-Pacific Division:
Preschool, Myanmar Union Adventist Seminary, Myaungmya, Myanmar
Life Hope Center, Yangon, Myanmar
Health Clinic, Brunei
Papua Adventist Theology College, Nabire, Indonesia
Visit adventistmission.org for more information and stories from the current quarter.
The church is united by its call to support mission. But few of us know exactly what the mission offering does, where it comes from, or where it goes. Our offerings support frontline evangelism in unentered countries as well as in teeming cities. They help build and sustain schools, establish churches, and help produce literature for distribution in hundreds of languages. In short, our mission offerings do everything our tithes can’t do.
The 13th Sabbath Offering allows us to give to specific projects that grow the church in tangible ways. One of the first 13th Sabbath Offerings in 1912 helped develop the River Plate Academy and school of theology in Argentina. Today the River Plate campus houses a university with 2,500 students as well as elementary and secondary schools enrolling 1,000 students. Our offerings have been instrumental in growing institutions such as these around the world.