Important 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 15 – The last day to file your 2025 taxes without an extension.
April 13-17, 2026 – Family Fellowship Week in Sophia, NC. Office will be closed.
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.
For easy access to all of these dates, click here to download our WWNTBM Dates and Deadlines Calendar into your calendar app.
Family Fellowship Week
Family Week is fast approaching! We are excited to see the plans coming together, and we hope you are planning to attend. The week will begin with dinner on Monday evening, April 13, and will end with the Thursday night service. There will be free time in the afternoons so you and your family can enjoy the facilities or take in local attractions. Attendees are asked to stay for the entire week. Check-out will be Friday morning after breakfast.
If your plans for Family Fellowship Week have changed, click here to let the office know about your changes ASAP.
Click here to see more information and details about the week. We look forward to seeing you there!
Please note that our office will be closed on Monday, April 13, through Friday, April 17, for Family Fellowship Week. We will reopen on Monday, April 20.
Should you have an emergency during this time, you may contact Kim O’Malley at 704-974-1008 or Jeremy Lockhart at 706-617-3042.
Tax Filing Information
The deadline this year to file US taxes for most taxpayers is Wednesday, April 15. 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 15 even if you are not required to file until later in the year. All missionaries with WWNTBM are responsible for filing their own taxes. If the office can assist in providing paperwork to your preparer on your behalf, please let us know.
Doctrinal Agreement
If you have submitted your doctrinal agreement statement, your new card for 2026-2027 is now available for you to download and print from your SecureCloud folder. If you have not yet submitted your annual agreement, email us as soon as possible, indicating that you have read and are still in agreement with our Articles of Faith. If you have questions or concerns, please contact John O’Malley.
Financial Status Report
We will upload a Financial Status Report to your SecureCloud account in the coming days, showing figures for the first quarter of 2026. 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.
Policy on Designated Funds
The Executive Board adopted the following policy in 2023 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 a reminder of our 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).
New Baby!
Loriel Gracelyn Smothers was born on March 19, 2026. She is the third child of Joel and Noel Smothers, and joins brothers Gabriel (7) and Samuel (3). The Smothers are missionaries to Brazil.
Prayer Requests and Special Days
Click here to download a PDF of prayer requests and praises, as well as the birthdays and anniversaries for this month.
Note: You will need to log in to SecureCloud in order to view this document. Once you have logged in, click on Files, Shared, then Headquarter Happenings, then scroll to the month you would like to view. This step protects people with WWNTBM in restricted access fields.