11 December 2013 Update!

Dear partners,

We write constantly about prayer and we frequently thank you for your giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.  Here is some info that is important for you to consider as you pray about your financial gift to this year's offering:

Global population …………………………………………7.0 billion people

Population of unreached people groups with limited

  or no access to the Gospel …………………………….....3.9 billion people

Number of Southern Baptist missionaries currently

  serving overseas with IMB …………………………..….. 4,854 missionaries*

    (* Plus their approx. 4,000 children)

Number of countries in which they are working ……….….. 134 countries

Number of people groups currently being engaged

  by IMB missionaries ……………………………………. 874 people groups

Number of people groups currently being engaged

  that do not have Scripture in their language

  (“Bible-less people groups”) …………………………… 204 people groups

Your giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions is what enables our work to continue. Without your support, we, and all of your Southern Baptist missionaries, would not be able to serve, and the people groups among whom we serve might not otherwise currently have the opportunity to hear the Gospel. There are many more missionaries waiting to be sent out. Please pray about giving even more this year to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions through your church or through www.imb.org , so that the many people groups among whom we serve, as well as those who are still waiting, will hear the Good News.

Our prayer is that your gift to this year's offering would show that you are 'Totally His!'

Blessings!

Jeff, Liesa, Haylee, and Jackson Holeman