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Women On Mission - November 2023

Our International Mission study is Wednesday, December 1st at 12:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall, led by Pastor Paul Willett. We will learn that Zambia is the land of Victoria Falls and David Livingstone, of termite mounds the size of trucks, of wildebeest migrations, and of copper and clear-cut emeralds. It is slightly larger than the state of Texas. Christianity arrived with European missionaries in the 1800’s.

As we approach the end of this calendar year, I wanted to remind our members, as well as inform the newer ones about our World Mission Club. This is an opportunity to give to missions on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. This is collected throughout the year and distributed at the end of the year, as follows:

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering 51.6%
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering 19.6%
Life Change Central (Oakhill Ministries) 10.0%
State Missions Offering 10.0%
State Camp Offering 8.8%
Our Goal for 2023 is $35,000

If you are not currently giving in this systematic way, please consider doing so in 2024.  Boxed envelopes are provided by the church.  You can designate World Missions Offering on your envelope (this is over and above our tithes.)  In addition, a special offering is taken for Lottie Moon at Christmas and Annie Armstrong at Easter which is
added to the club receipts at the end of the year. The World Hunger Offering is a separate offering taken in the summer.

The Evansville Rescue Mission has asked us to collect mac and cheese for their Gobbler Gathering Thanksgiving Baskets.  Our goal is 800 boxes!  The deadline is Sunday, November 12th.

Women on Mission will meet Thursday, November 2nd at 1:00 pm in the Grace classroom across from the Fellowship Hall.  All ladies are invited to attend.

Women On Mission - October 2023

As we look forward to our church’s 60th anniversary, it should be noted that the Woman’s Missionary Society was begun very early in the life of Oakhill.  It was later renamed Baptist Women, then Women on Mission.  Upon the death of Mrs. Dorothy Fleming in a tragic accident, the organization’s minutes were never recovered, so the earliest records are not available to us.

The first mention of any organized mission support at Oakhill Chapel was in November 1960 when we voted to receive a Christmas offering, half going to a building fund and half to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for Foreign Missions.  (No record of the amount received.)

The Woman’s Missionary Society seems to have met regularly, beginning in the early 1960’s, before the church was organized.  Children’s groups were provided, beginning as early as 1961.

The parent organization was formed in 1888 in Richmond, Virginia, at a time when women did not work outside the home, husbands ruled the home, and women did not have income at their disposal.  The Foreign Mission Board asked the women’s organization to raise money for missionaries to be sent to China.  Their goal was to collect $2,000.00 to send two missionaries.  $3,315.26 was raised, enough to send three missionaries.

Our Women on Mission group continues to meet each month.  Our goals are to lead the church to learn about missions, support missions through prayer and giving, develop spiritually toward a missions lifestyle, participate in the work of the church and denominations, and engage in missions and personal witnessing.

Women on Mission will meet Thursday, October 5th at 1:00 pm in the Grace classroom. All ladies are invited to be with us.

Our Hunger Offering receipts are $1,091.50.

We are collecting mac and cheese for the Rescue Mission’s Gobbler Gathering, beginning Sunday, October 8th.