Fast Facts
Your Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering is busy year-round making a difference in the lives of people and churches across the state. Check out these Fast Facts from 2021-2022.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers bring help, hope, and healing to disaster survivors.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, churches mobilized members to engage lostness by serving in disaster relief. Last year alone over 250 people accepted Christ as Savior during hurricane season.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers gave out over 1,000,000 bottles of water in Jesus’ name.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, we trained over 200 new disaster relief volunteers.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers provided over 750,000 meals in response to Hurricane Ida.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers can provide trailers for people to take a shower.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers provide laundry service for storm survivors.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers are able to cut thousands of downed trees off homes.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteer Chaplains can distribute Bibles and devotional materials to disaster survivors.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, disaster relief volunteers receive assistance purchasing new equipment to meet the demands of an ever-increasing rate of disasters.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, many young boys come to know Christ as Savior through RA’s.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, many young boys grow up to serve as missionaries.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, many young boys have a chance to have a positive male role model in their life.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, the next generation of church leaders are aware of the significance of being a good steward and supporting the work of Baptist entities.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, boys gain an appreciation for the outdoors and experience camping and other events.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, RA’s learn valuable skills that will make them successful in whatever vocation the Lord leads them.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, RA’s develop a Biblical worldview.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, RA’s not only learn about missions but become active participants in missions.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, RA’s lives are changed by the Word of God as they are challenged in memorizing Bible verses.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette Offering, RA leaders who sense a call to teach missions education to children can employ their spiritual gifts and talents.
The Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering has made it possible to train and equip over 600 church planting team members since 2015.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering provides the financial spark that allows a church to say “yes” to multiplication.
Churches planted since 2010, with help from the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, have now led over 15,000 people to Christ.
The Mission Builder program, funded through the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, has fueled sustainability with our new churches by helping make first unit buildings affordable.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering has helped double the number of Hispanic congregations in Louisiana and to increase the total number of non-Anglo congregations from 5% to now 15% of total congregations in the LBC.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering has helped reach every people group. Since 2010, new Vietnamese, Burmese, Chinese, Korean, Eritrean, Arabic, Hispanic, and Portuguese churches have been started in Louisiana.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering fuels ministry to real people through compassion ministry development that has included food pantry, addiction recovery resources, English as a Second Language, Adult Reading and Writing, Job Training, and more.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering has fueled the planting of 74 new churches in the New Orleans area with over $3 million invested by Louisiana Baptist in New Orleans since 2010.
The Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering has helped reach every corner of our state as churches have been planted in 104 of Louisiana’s 304 cities and towns.
Churches planted since 2010, with help from the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, have baptized 3,798 believers.
With the help of the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, Louisiana Baptists have partnered with churches and associations to start 12 new Asian congregations since 2010.
With the help of the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, Louisiana Baptists have partnered with churches and associations to start 39 new Hispanic congregations since 2010.
With the help of the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, Louisiana Baptists have partnered with churches and associations to start 87 new African American congregations since 2010.
With the help of the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, 159 non-Anglo congregations have been started since 2010.
277 new churches were started since 2010, because of the love Louisiana Baptists have demonstrated toward their state by participating in the Georgia Barnette.
55% of new congregations planted since 2010, have been non-Anglo.
By 2030, Louisiana Baptist hope to add 475 new churches bringing us to 2,000 congregations through church planting, replanting, and new affiliate congregations.
Sixty-eight churches have been replanted in the last 10 years.
Because the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering, the number of Hispanic churches in our state has doubled.
The Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering is helping us finish the task in Louisiana, as we are now planting new churches in 50 cities and towns with no Southern Baptist church.
Because Louisiana Baptists give to the Georgia Barnette State Mission’s Offering…
We meet a common goal to reach our state for Christ.
Children attend M-JAM where they learn about missions.
Children’s Missions Camp provides a great place for children to meet International Mission Board missionaries, have Bible study together, and enjoy God’s great outdoors.
Children at Missions camp give back to missions through their offering to the Georgia Barnette Mission offering.
Twenty college students staff our Children’s Mission Camp.
Consultations with church leaders of mission education organizations encourage leaders to guide children and youth to pray for, give to, and support missions around our state and world.
Meeting Needs, Building Trust, Fully Sharing the Gospel, and Connecting to the Local church
We feed millions of pounds of food with the intention of sharing the gospel.
We tutor children in after school programs.
We train churches in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.
We assist in setting up Thrift Stores that fund other ministry in local communities.
We assist in opening Pregnancy Centers that have the purpose of “saving babies.”
We work in nursing homes to care for the elderly.
We offer Chaplaincy/Police Training across the state to support our state and local police departments.
We collect goods to put in backpacks for the Christmas Backpack Ministry.
We assist Ministry Centers that rescue women trapped in human trafficking.
We train coaches to assist church planters in growing the Kingdom.
We provide churches with a multitude of creative opportunities to get involved in Compassion Ministries.
The Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering was named to honor Miss Georgia Barnette who served as the first full-time, employed director of Louisiana Baptists’ WMU. She served from 1915-1929.
Gifts to the 2022 Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering will make possible church planting, compassion ministries, missions’ education, disaster relief, scholarships, and mission camps in the year 2023.
Each year, an allocation from the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering gives assistance to prison ministry in partnership with the Baptist Association of Greater Baton Rouge and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary extension center at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola.
Thanks to assistance through the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering, Women’s Missions and Ministry hosts a yearly women’s event, “Embrace.” This weekend conference is a time to highlight missions, encourage spiritual growth, enhance personal discipleship, and nurture fellowship among all women in our state. The Louisiana WMU annual meeting is part of the event.
Regional “Women Who Lead” events seek to encourage and equip women who serve in leadership, missions education, Bible study, and discipleship in their Louisiana Baptist churches. In 2022, “Women Who Lead” training will take place in Natchitoches, West Monroe, Franklinton, Ball, and Sulphur.
Cindy Blanchard, Louisiana Baptists’ Sanctity of Human Life/Pregnancy Resource Center Consultant, is a great resource to churches, associations, and pregnancy resource centers. She offers encouragement and guidance as centers expand their ministry to women and families who have questions and doubts about unplanned pregnancies.
Nine students will receive scholarship assistance as they attend one of our six Southern Baptist seminaries in 2022-2023. One of those scholarships is the African American Church Planter Scholarship. Eight women will receive the WMU Seminary Women’s Scholarship.
The Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering makes it possible to equip and train missions and ministry leaders in the local church.
In the 2022-2023 school year, twenty-six students at Louisiana Christian University will receive financial assistance through a WMU Scholarship. These scholarships are funded by the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering.
Financial assistance from the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering made continued ministry to offenders at LA Correctional Institute for Women possible through the Gift Box Distribution.
The annual Ministers’ Wives’ Retreat is a highlight weekend for Louisiana Baptists’ ministers’ wives. The cost to attend this event is greatly reduced because of the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering.
God is using your church to help reach Louisiana through Here for You, Louisiana Baptists’ multi-media outreach strategy.
Your gifts through GBO inserted God’s truth inside 92% of TV Households across Louisiana in the first quarter of 2022.
In 2021, 1,013 people indicated a decision for Christ through our partnership with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Through the first half of 2022, this partnership has seen 500 people indicate a decision for Christ.
God used Here for You to impact an average of 134,455 people each month via social media in 2021.
Through June of 2022, you’re reaching an average of 114,772 people every month through those same platforms (Facebook and Instagram).
In 2021, an average of 34,756 people were reached each month via streaming services.
As of June 2022, you’re reaching an average of 53,762 people every month through streaming services. Top 3 streaming services on average – Tubi, Discovery and Xumo.
Americans spend over 7 hours a day in front of a screen. You’re meeting them there with God’s truth via Here for You.
Your church is part of this effort! Discover more by visiting our Here for You resource center and entering the password: luke1423.
Free Here for You resources are available on the Louisiana Baptists website. Enter the password: luke1423.
Here for You is a multi-platform, evangelistic media strategy designed to give every person in Louisiana the opportunity to say “yes” to Jesus.
The goal of Here for You is to seed God’s truth inside every heart and every home, almost every day.
Here for You is missions in one of its purest forms – taking God’s word to people and places we don’t typically reach.
Here for You is an attempt to fulfill Jesus’ directive in Luke 14:23, “Go into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in.”