The HPBC and your Women’s Missionary Union WMU supports giving to the Cooperative Program and three specific offerings:
- The Sue Nishikawa Offering for Hawaii Pacific Missions
- The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions
- The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions
The Sue Nishikawa Offering for Hawaii Pacific Missions supports the missions and ministries of HPBC WMU. HPBC WMU provides prayer guides, offering envelopes, and posters for churches in Hawaii and the Pacific to support this offering. One hundred percent of this offering helps ministries here in Hawaii Pacific.
HPBC WMU supports two other offerings: Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. HPBC WMU provides prayer guides, offering envelopes, and posters for each of these offerings for churches in Hawaii and the Pacific. Giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering supports missionaries and their ministries in North American. Giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering supports missionaries and the ministries around the world.
The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists’ unified plan of giving through which cooperating Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their undesignated receipts in support of their respective state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.
Each year, we honor the life and work of Annie Walker Armstrong (1850-1938) when we give to the annual offering for North American missions named after her. As a tireless servant of God and a contagious advocate and supporter of mission efforts throughout the world, Annie Armstrong led women to unite in mission endeavors that ultimately led to the formation of Woman’s Missionary Union, for which she served as the first corresponding secretary.
Annie believed in Christ with all her heart, but it was her hands that expressed that belief in tangible ways. She spent a great amount of time typing and handwriting letters in support of missions. Many of these letters were quite lengthy and all were filled with conviction that more could and should be done in our mission efforts. In 1893 alone, she wrote almost 18,000 letters! Annie also never hesitated to use her hands to reach out to hug a child or distribute food and clothing and the Word of God to those in need. Her hands held her own Bible as she studied to know how best to share Gods love with others. And, most important, Annie was a woman of prayer, folding her hands in prayer to intercede for the missionaries and for those they were helping discover Christ.
Annie rallied churches to give more, pray more, and do more for reaching people for Christ. As we continue to unite to make her vision a reality in North America today, we can be confident that her legacy will also be ours.
Offering Overview
The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® is much more than an offering envelope and an annual missions-giving emphasis. When people give to the offering, 100 percent of their gift will be transformed into missionary salaries and ministry supplies. Those missionaries and supplies will help others hear the message of Christ and respond in faith to His offer of salvation. Time and again our missionaries relate how the offering is their lifeblood. They know that behind each penny given, there is a Southern Baptist who believes in what they do and are affirming the need to equip them to share the gospel with those who need a Savior.
For more information on the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, GO TO: www.anniearmstrong.com
The Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention WMU Office distributes posters, prayer guides and offering envelopes to the HPBC churches.
Who was Lottie Moon?
Lottie Moon – the namesake of the international missions offering – has become something of a legend to us. But in her time Lottie was anything but an untouchable hero. In fact, she was like today’s missionaries. She was a hard-working, deep-loving Southern Baptist who labored tirelessly so her people group could know Jesus.
Why was the offering named for this early missionary?
Throughout her career, Lottie Moon wrote numerous letters home, urging Southern Baptists to greater missions involvement and support. One of those letters triggered Southern Baptists’ first Christmas offering for international missions – enough to send three new missionaries to China.
For up-to-the-date information on the Lottie Moon offering, GO TO: Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
The Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention WMU Office distributes posters, prayer guides and offering envelopes to the HPBC churches.
The Sue Nishikawa Offering for Hawaii Pacific Missions supports the missions and ministries of Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention churches. Every single dollar you give helps advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Hawaii, the Pacific, and Asia. Thank you for your faithful commitment and prayers. And as you give, consider how your church can request funds to enhance and strengthen your missions efforts. You are Hawaii Pacific Missions.
Sue Nishikawa set an example for all Hawaii Pacific Baptists in the way she served Christ. After serving in local churches and at the Hawaii Baptist Convention, Sue was elected as the first executive secretary of the Hawaii Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) in 1954. After 26 years of state WMU work, Sue retired due to a stroke. However, she continued to serve in a variety of capacities until she died in 2004. The state missions offering was named for Sue in 1981. It is a fitting honor for a woman who had become Hawaii’s symbol of missions and ministry.