Neiswander Baptist Church Events
The Neiswander Baptist Church Homecoming Service is scheduled for September 21, 2008. All former members and friends are invited to celebrate Neiswander’s 69th anniversary as a Southern Baptist Church.
Reverend Rogers will speak at the worship service followed by lunch in the fellowship hall and congregational singing and special singing service in the sanctuary. Anyone wishing to participate in the special singing may be added to the program by calling Louise Burfield at 870-358-3098, and she will be happy to add you to the program. Hope to see your at our 2008 homecoming.
Neiswander Baptist Church participates in the following Special Offering Events.
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering during the 1st week of March
Arkansas State Missions Offfering during the 1st week of September
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering during the 1st week of December
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Annie Armstrong Offering in March
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History Of Annie Armstrong
 Born in 1850 in Baltimore, Md., Annie Armstrong grew up with strong convictions about missions. Living in the city, Armstrong developed interest in African-Americans, immigrants, the sick and the poor.
Armstrong began a life-style of ministry through her church and the charitable institutions of Baltimore when she was a young adult. The year 1880 marked a turning point in her life. In response to a speaker who told of destitute conditions and needs of Indians, she began a pilgrimage of leadership in missions and mission support. Two years later, she was elected president of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society of Maryland. The society's objective was to involve women in support of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. She held this office until 1906.
In 1888, Armstrong was elected corresponding secretary of Woman's Missionary Union, an organization she helped found. She gave WMU, and the work it supported, her all as she led it to be a major force for missions in the Southern Baptist Convention. She held this position also until 1906.
Since 1895, Southern Baptists have supported a national offering for home missions. Initiated by the WMU as the "Week of Self-Denial for Home Missions," the week acquainted women with the needs of Southern Baptist missionaries in the United States. In 1934, the offering was named the "Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for Home Missions" in honor of Miss Annie.
In 1998, the Offering was renamed the "Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions" and supports not only missionaries in the U.S. and its territories, but also in Canada.
Nearly $800 million have been given to the Offering during its 103-year history, supporting thousands of missionaries who evangelized the lost, ministered to the needs of millions of people, and started thousands of Southern Baptist churches.
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Lottie Moon Offering in December
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History Of Lottie Moon
A gifted young teacher from Virginia by the name of Charlotte Diggs "Lottie" Moon came to Cartersville as the co-principal of the Cartersville Female Academy in June, 1871. At Cartersville Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church), Lottie assisted her pastor, Rev. R.B. Headden, with visits to those in need in the community. In February 1873, pastors and deacons from around the area met at the Oothcalooga Baptist Church near Adairsville to pray about sending missionaries. Rev. Headden prayed that at least one person from his congregation would answer the call. Lottie Moon sat on her usual front row pew the following Sunday. Through the sermon of Rev. Headden, she heard her call to go to China.
For the next 39 years the people in Cartersville prayed and faithfully gave their money for Lottie Moon's work in China. On Christmas Day of 1881, families from Cartersville came together and left a special offering for her work, the first Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. In 1892 Lottie returned to Cartersville to greet old friends and former pupils, who called her "our own Miss Lottie Moon."
In 1940, the Georgia Women's Missionary Union erected a marker in front of the current First Baptist worship center which reads: "Erected by Georgia Baptist Women's Missionary Union to the memory of Lottie Moon, who went from First Baptist Church of Cartersville in 1873 as a missionary to China until her death in 1912. In losing her life did she find it eternal in the thousands brought to the Savior."
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Dixie Jackson Offering in August
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History Of Dixie Jackson
 Dixie Farrior (Jackson) was born May 6, 1860 in Louisiana. When Dixie was 12 years old, her family moved to Dardanelle, Arkansas where she attended school and marrried James Jackson in 1878.
James and Dixie Jackson had eight children. The Jacksons were active in the Baptist Church in Dardanelle where they lived for 25 years before moving to Little Rock in 1904. They joined Second Baptist Church and became active in the religious and cultural life of Little Rock until Mr. Jackson died in 1912. Dixie was made a member of the Central Committee (now Executive Board) of Arkansas Woman’s Missionary Union, becoming one of the Committee’s most active members.
In 1914, Dixie Jackson was asked to become the leader of Arkansas Woman’s Missionary Union. For 15 years, she was diligent in training WMU leadership, speaking in churches on behalf of missions, encouraging and providing opportunities of service for young women to become involved in WMU and established an annual Season of Prayer for State Missions. In 1926, the program was published in the Baptist Advance for the missionary societies to use, and it became an annual observance.
Two years after the first program, Arkansas WMU asked that an offering be taken for state missions. The first offering was approximately $1,000 and today our goal has grown to over a million dollars..
Mrs. Jackson became ill and died on January 7, 1929. In honor of her service, Woman’s Missionary Union, meeting in annual session in 1935, voted to name the state offering, “The Dixie Jackson Offering for State Missions.”
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