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Media kit contentEntire churchHis heart, His hands, His voice Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (3:37)

Let it start with me Music video by No Other Name (3:48)

Stories• Rio portrait – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (3:06)• Tricked, transported and trapped – Johannesburg, South Africa (3:11)• Legacy of love – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (3:09)• The road to promise – European city (3:05)

Missionary testimonies• “Cara Simpson” – Madagascar (1:28)• Andy Kennedy – Brazil (2:06)• “Colt Bonham” – Tibetans (2:00)• Sam York – Haiti (:56)• Beth Locke – South Africa (1:00)

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Pastor’squick-start guide1. Learn about the 2011 theme: “I am His heart, His hands, His voice – I am Southern Baptist missions”2. Review the videos and resources below.3. Plan with your missions team.4. Determine what will connect with your church.

5. Call the church to prayer.6. Establish a strategy for giving •familygoal •churchgoal •SundaySchoolclassgoal7. Calendar the dates.8. Celebrate the victory.

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Downloadable videos, promotional art, Week of Prayer photos and more, plus links to more great resources online.

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Pastor,As you already know, if you are a follower of Jesus, you are part of the task to fulfill the Great Commission.

But does your congregation know it?

Paul says, “All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27). Jesus has commissioned us to be His heart, His hands, His voice. Through praying, giving and going, Southern Baptists have fulfilled this legacy for more than 160 years.

Yet billions remain lost and time may be running out for them. We must pray more intentionally and give more sacrificially than ever before. Our churches must take direct responsibility for helping reach the nearly 3,800 unengaged, unreached people groups that missionaries may never be able to get to.

And, since many unreached people groups likely are represented in the world’s urban centers, we have unique challenges and opportunities to reach the world through the cities.

What can you do as pastor? You can lead your church to own the Great Commission as never before, to be an extension of His heart, hands and voice through praying, through partnering to reach the unreached, through unprecedented giving to send more missionar-ies. We have special sermon aids for you in the pages that follow.

Theme video: His heart, His hands, His voice – I am Southern Baptist missionsBegin by showing your congregation this video.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” —Acts 1:8

Christ offers hope for young victims of sexual exploitation in South Africa.

The road to promise:

IMB workers bring a message of hope to refugees flowing into Europe.

Tricked, transported

and trapped:

Rio portrait: Eric Reese shares his heart for Rio de Ja-neiro and what makes him stay.

Other features:

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Pastor, “Legacy of love” is a perfect illustration of what happens when Southern Baptists obey God’s call to pray, give and go, to be His heart, His hands, His voice. Before showing the video, share this background to help your congregation understand events in Vietnam during the years of the first missionaries.

Southern Baptists’ prayers and giving sup-ported more than 50 missionaries who served in Vietnam between 1959 and 1975 — including Sam James and his family. In 1970, Southern Baptists also provided the $50,000 needed to buy the land and build-ing for Grace Baptist in Saigon (today, Ho Chi Minh City) — where the church remains today.

In fact, Grace Baptist is one of the few remaining churches that survived the dark years following Vietnam’s communist revolution. And the church eventually gave birth to a vibrant network of Baptist churches that today are making Christ’s name known throughout Vietnam.

Sermon aids for ‘Legacy of love’

Share more of the legacy of Southern Baptists in Vietnam and challenges of today’s Vietnamese believers and churches inNew hope dawns for Vietnam

Video feature: Legacy of love

Sam James was driven by a divine love for the Vietnamese people. He shares how “the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® meant everything to the work in Vietnam.”

view slideshow

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“There were dark war clouds way off on the horizon. … Things were looking pretty dark here. … They were so afraid. They didn’t know what was happening.” –Sam James

Main points to emphasize

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• Sam’sobediencetookhimto Vietnam and gave him the courage to stay, even when the Viet Cong began attacking. Sam was His heart, allowing God to love the people of Vietnam through him.

• Sam’sgreatestfearwasnotforhisownsafetybutthattheVietnamese would “think that I deserted them in their hour of greatest need” when it was necessary to leave the country. Sam and others had been His hands in Vietnam for 16 years. They wondered: Was the faith of the believers strong enough to survive a communist takeover?

• Leavingthesafetyofthecity,Samdaredtostandoncratesinafieldand speak all day to the frightened Vietnamese who had come down from the mountains. Sam was His voice, calming earthly fears with eternal hope.

• Questionstoponder,individuallyandasachurch: •AreweallowingGodtolovepeoplethroughus—includingthelost we’ve never met? • IsourloveforGod’speoplestrongenoughtomakeusboldwitnessesin the face of adversity? • HowareweHishandstothosewhoareinspiritualorphysicalneed? How far are we willing to extend His hands? • DowehavetheboldnesstobeobedienttotheGreatCommission, even to taking the Gospel to one of the remaining 3,800 unengaged, unreached people groups?

Hear Sam James tell the story of surviving the Tet Offensive

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Dig Deeperon the Web: Experience Sam’s ministry in Vietnam on commissionstories.com/vietnam, featuring a video timeline, more stories and a photo gallery.

“When we had to leave, the church was here. … And now, all these years later, the church is just getting stronger. … People are being saved … the church is being established, which can then minister to the whole country.” –Sam James

Main points to emphasize• SouthernBaptistmissionaries,workingwithnationalpartners,startedGrace Baptist Church in Ho Chi Minh City. The effects impacted a nation. Consider the far-reaching impact our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® has today when wesendworkerstothecities,whereoverhalftheworld’spopulationlive— including representatives of unreached people groups!

• ThosewhogavetotheLottieMoonofferingintheearlydayswereHis heart, His hands, His voice through the missionaries they supported, just as we are today. But there simply aren’t enough missionaries to get to all unreached people groups. More than ever, our churches must take direct responsibility for reaching the unreached. Are we ready to obey the Great Commission?

Read the complete story of the Sam James family in Vietnam in “Servant on the Edge of History.”

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How missions is fundedLottie Moon Christmas Offering® Every penny given to the Lottie Moon offering is used to support Southern Baptist missionaries as they share the Gospel overseas. The offering represents 57 percent of the International Mission Board’s total income.

Cooperative Program Thirty percent of IMB’s support is received from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program (CP). Your church gives its CP offering to your state conven-tion. Each state convention gives between 13.5 percent and 55 percent of its CP collection to the SBC. Slightly more than half of that portion goes to support IMB work. Find details for your state at imb.org/statechart.

Other income Southern Baptists’ gifts to IMB’s World Hunger and General Relief ministries comprise 2 per-cent of IMB’s income. Field-generated funds, investment returns and other income constitute 11 percent.

What is the average cost to support an individual missionary? Per year $46,700Per month $3,890Per week $900Per day $128Per hour $5.30Per minute $.09

Support includes housing, salary, children’s education, medical expenses, retirement and more. UpdatedApril 2011.

Consider basing your Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal on the cost ofsending a missionary (for a year, for a month, etc.) For other ideas on how toset your goal, go to imb.org/goalsetting.

“Knowing the average cost to support a missionary is about $46,700 a year, it is easy to break this up into how much it takes to sup-port one for a month, a week, or a day. With those figures in mind, our people have some type of goal in mind as they pray about their gifts. … Our ultimate goal is to be able to support a missionary for a year.”

— Don Wilson, pastorFirst Baptist Church, Benton, Ky.

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Pastor Michael Cloer saw the haunt-ingnumber—6,426—andfelttheclock ticking for the unreached people groups with so little access to the Gospel. It was a burden he took home from the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 2010.

Englewood Baptist in Rocky Mount, N.C., was no stranger to missions. The church had been doing missions trips for eight years. But now their pastor was fervent about finding the unreached people group God wanted his church to reach.

Following the counsel of people like JoeDillon,IMBmissionalchurchstrategist, church members began daily, focused prayer.

“You need to have a sense of what you aregettinginto,”DillontoldCloer.“It’sa costly investment, and spiritually you will face opposition from the enemy.

“This is not IMB promoting a program, it’s what God’s calling you to do. You and the congregation will need to hear from Him.”

One name kept appearing during their summer of prayer: the Koli Malhar in In-dia. A vision trip in February confirmed this was God’s choice. Over a dozen Koli adults publicly renounced all other

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gods, prayed to receive and serve Christ, opened their homes to church members and agreed to connect them to interpreters.

In due time, God called a couple from Englewood to India to be the ongoing link from the church to the field.

“When we worked through that little brown booklet [Getting There journal], it just touched their hearts in the process … . Their daughters are out of school, they are out of debt and open to God’s calling the rest of their life,” said Cloer. The church took up a collec-tion to support the couple for one year, and four teams from the church were scheduled for the rest of 2011.

Still, Cloer wasn’t satisfied.

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“Surely every church could take anunreached people group,” he sur-mised.“If I mentor a group of seven pastors each year, and if the Lord gives me 10 more years, we alone can reach 1 percent of the 6,426 unreached people groups.”

And so Cloer entered into a covenant of partnership with fellow pastors. He intends to meet with each one for a year if each will commit to leading his own church to embrace an unreached people. The first group of pastors were invited to accompany Cloer in August to do pastor training among the Koli.

Despitetheeconomy,Englewoodcontinues to be a strong supporter of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®, sending $100,000 in 2010. “I think our involvement with the Koli will only enlarge it,” Cloer says.

“This is the story of a pastor whose heart is sensitive to the Holy Spirit and is careful every step along the way to respond to what God has shown him. We have just been tools to help him facilitate the vision that God is writing on his heart for his church.” —Joe Dillon, IMB missional church strategist

Be His heart, hands and voice for a people group that might not otherwise know Him. Select your people at imb.org/gettingthere. Download the Getting There journal or order from (800) 999-3113 to guide you through the process of reaching them.

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on the Web: See your Lottie Moon dollars at work: imb.org/lottieatworkSee your Cooperative Program dollars at work: cpmissions.net

Fast factsWorld evangelization•11,659peoplegroupsworldwide; 6.8 billion people•6,744unreachedpeoplegroups•3,789unengaged,unreachedpeoplegroups•817peoplegroupsdirectlyorindirectlyengaged by IMB personnel (as reported in April 2011 Global Status of Evangelical Christianity)

Church growth•29,237newchurches•360,876baptisms (as reported in 2010 Annual Statistical Report)

City factsWeek of Prayer, Dec. 4-11, focuses on cities around the world. Being His heart, His hands, His voice in the urban center has a far-reaching impact. Consider these facts:

•Currently,morethanhalftheworld’speopleliveincities.Fiftyyearsago,thatfigure was less than a third. By mid-century, more than two-thirds of the global popula- tion will reside in urban centers. •InLondonalone,childrenspeakmorethan200languages,andmorethan40 percent of schoolchildren speak a language other than English at home.•Karachi,thelargestcityinPakistan,grewfrom1milliontomorethan17million in 50 years. About 97 percent follow Islam. Christians make up only 2 percent. •InDongguan,China,hometo3,000factories,10million17-to35-year-oldsare awayfromthestrongholdsoftheirculturebackhome;mostreturntotheir villages by age 35.•Morethan99percentofJapanesestilldonotknowChrist.Morethan4,000 people in Tokyo alone are homeless.•Humantraffickingclaimsanestimated27millionvictimsincitiesaroundthe world, 80 percent for sexual exploitation. In South Africa alone, one in four girls faces the prospect of being raped before the age of 16.

Learn more at imb.org/weekofprayer

Missionaries•5,013missionaries – 4,246 career – 767 short-term (as of March 16, 2011)

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ResourcesLottie Moon Christmas Offering® posterWeek of Prayer (Dec. 4-11) brochureOffering envelopeDisplaytheposteranddistributebrochuresandoffering envelopes as reminders that when we pray and give, we are His heart, His hands, His voice – we are Southern Baptist missions! WMU state offices send free quantities of these items to churches.

Living Letters: Stories from the Great Commission flier,Lottie Moon Christmas Offering edition TheNovember-DecemberspecialeditionflierpromotestheLottieMoon Christmas Offering. Sized to fit in your Sunday bulletin. If you alreadysubscribetothismonthlyflier,youwillautomaticallyreceivethe Lottie Moon offering issue. FREE.

CommissionStories tabloidCommissionStories is a quarterly tabloid that will ignite a mis-sions passion among its readers and lead to informed, fervent prayer. The winter edition includes stories about Week of Prayer (Dec.4-11)cities.Manyofthefeaturesinthetabloidarealsoincommissionstories.com, an online multimedia site. FREE.

iamsbmissions.comNEW! A mobile phone-friendly site! iamsbmissions.com will direct you to resources that will help you inspire, equip and engage your church—tobringeveryonealongtobeHisheart,Hishands,Hisvoice. To be Southern Baptist missions!

Mobilephoneusers—scantheQRcodetotakeyouto this valuable Web resource.

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“This year our budget was decreased by 10 percent. Yet, because our church feels a person-al responsibility for the Great Commission, our Lottie Moon giving has not decreased. In fact, giving to missions has even increased. Only God could make this possible.”

– Michael Cloer, pastor

Englewood Baptist Church, Rocky Mount, N.C.

PAGE 7: Read about Englewood’s partnership with the Koli Malhar people group of India.

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