Month: March 2023

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From the Memo Board: April 2023

Dates to Know

April 1 – February Financial Reports will be due for US Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

April 1 – March Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

April 10-14 – Family Fellowship Week in Asheboro, NC

May 1 – March Financial Reports will be due for US Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

May 1 – April Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

Updated Policy on Designated Funds

The Executive Board adopted the following policy for handling designated funds. They recognized you faced hardship and a challenge when designated gifts arrived at the missions agency, which were unsolicited and unexpected.

Here is the new policy for handling designated funds:

      • Unsolicited Designated Funds: When a donor sends a designated unsolicited gift, we will process the gift as a regular gift. We will process the gift as unrestricted funds.
      • Solicited Designated Funds: We will follow donor intent when a missionary solicits funds for a project. All solicited projects need to be approved by the Executive Board. This agency has complete control of the donated funds and discretion regarding their use.

Reminders:

      • We will make you aware of designations in the memo field of your support list.
      • We can only accept designated funds for WWNTBM missionaries.
      • We cannot receive funds designated as “national support” or funds designated as gifts for adult children of our missionaries (age 18 and older).

Tax Filing Information

The deadline this year to file taxes for most taxpayers is Tuesday, April 18. If you have not yet contacted your tax preparer about filing your taxes, you need to do so as soon as possible. Failure to file on time, even if you are unable to pay on time, can result in additional penalties and interest. Individuals can receive an extension of the filing deadline, but please note that if taxes are owed, interest on those payments will begin as of April 18 even if you are not required to file until later in the year. All missionaries with WWNTBM are responsible to file their own taxes. If the office can assist in providing paperwork to your preparer on your behalf, please let us know.

Financial Status Report

We will upload a Financial Status Report to your SecureCloud account in coming days, showing figures for the first quarter of 2023. This is meant to show you the financial details that we have on file, such as your support estimate and the average amount of support you received this past quarter. This is information we provide to pastors who may call about your ministry. We ask that all missionaries update their support estimate once every four years, or as their lives and ministries change. Please review this information and contact us if you have any questions.

New Baby!

Juliana Clare Duarte was born on March 24, 2023. Juliana is the second daughter of Jed and Gloria Duarte, and joins her older sister Eliana, who is 5. The Duartes are missionaries in Brazil.

 

 

Uplift Podcast

The Unseen Yet Ever Present Hand of God: Part 1 by Allen Mercer

The Unseen Yet Ever Present Hand of God, Part 2 by Allen Mercer

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From the Memo Board: March 2023

Dates to Know

March 1 – January Financial Reports will be due for US Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

March 1 – February Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

April 1 – February Financial Reports will be due for US Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

April 1 – March Financial Reports will be due for Non-Resident Missionaries. This includes FNPO Reports for those with Foreign Non-Profit Organizations.

April 10-14 – Family Fellowship Week in Asheboro, NC

Changes in Ministry and your Financial Reports

Changes in ministry can affect the typical expenses you list on your reports from month to month. For instance, someone on deputation will primarily have travel expenses, while someone on the field may have more costs related to renting a building or purchasing nursery snacks and Sunday School supplies. Someone coming home on furlough will be dealing with meal allowances and lodging costs they don’t usually see when on the field, and may be using a borrowed vehicle, which must be recorded differently from a vehicle they own. We suggest that you click here to review our checklist of commonly overlooked expenses, to be sure you are claiming all allowable deductions. If you have questions about your financial reports, please contact our office.

Family Fellowship Week

Family Fellowship Week is about three things. It is about gathering as a Missions family. It is about fellowship with God’s choice servants. It is about continuing to do what brought us this far as a missions agency. Our theme for Family Fellowship Week 2023 is Hope! God reminds us in Scripture of our hope in Him, the Gospel, the Faith, and His return.

Please pray with us that those attending will be encouraged and strengthened to continue in their ministries during this week.

New Missionaries!

Morgan Dickens was recently approved as an associate missionary with World Wide. Morgan is the son of our missionaries Joel and Cynthia Dickens, and has grown up on the field of Brazil. Morgan is sent out of the Roanoke Island Baptist Church of Manteo, NC, with Pastor Scott Baxley. His desire is to assist another missionary in Brazil to establish a ministry training facility. He will work in this new training center for two years as he seeks God’s will for his future.

 

Cody Carden was recently approved as an associate missionary with World Wide. Cody is a missions student at Ambassador Baptist College. He is from the McLeansville Baptist Church in McLeansville, NC, with Pastor Michael Barnette. Cody is completing his college internship with WWNTBM this summer, and will be assisting in our See The Harvest trip to Scotland, as well as traveling with Bro. O’Malley to meetings in the US and Mexico.

Uplift Podcast

Prayer by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 1: Adoration by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 2: Appreciation by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 3: Compassion by Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 4: Direction by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 5: Provision by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

Motives of Prayer, Part 6: Sanctification by Pastor Gene Krachenfels

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Do You Weary God?

by John O’Malley

While preparing a message from Malachi’s book, the Lord illuminated Malachi 2:17. “Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?”

I pondered; the Omnipotent God said our words wearied Him.

How? How is it, He who bears every care, He who wipes tears and records them, He who watches sparrows, and He who knows the hairs of our head (my head included) said the words of His people wearied Him?

I never considered I could weary God. Do you weary God?

Scripture teaches God wearies with five things. He wearies with:

        • our wrongdoing
        • our spiritless worship
        • our sin-filled hearts
        • our resistance to His Spirit
        • our silly objections

I do not want to weary Him. Do you?

1. God wearies with our iniquities. (Iniquities are when I do wrong according to God’s righteousness.)
“Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.” Isaiah 43:24

2. God wearies with our formal Godless worship.
“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.” Isaiah 1:14

3. God wearies with our sin-filled hearts and ignorance of God’s way.
“Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:” Psalm 95:10

4. God wearies with our resistance to his Spirit.
“But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.” Isaiah 63:10

5. God wearies with our silly whining, objections, and rebellions.
“Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?” Malachi 2:17

Did you weary God yesterday? Are you wearying Him today? Last Sunday, did you bring spiritless and lifeless worship? Did you use silly words whining about why God had not moved in a matter critical to you?

Let us seek His word and ways. Let us evict a spiritless form of worship from our lives. When His Spirit leads, follow. When the heathen prosper, don’t whine; remember, God is always working out His plan.

Yours for the harvest,
John O’Malley