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Giving Miscon Fruits of Mission Angels and an Albatross the World In ~ Price 2Sp Giving A Miscon Fruits of Mission Angels and an Albatross The World In View A Modern Parable Snippings from missionary letters Probing Mission G I V I N G G I V I N G G I V I N G G I V I N G G I V I N G FEATURES IT'S FUN A closer look at Christian giving .. .. .......... ...... ....... 3 EDITORIAL GIVING MORE TO THE KINGDOM COMMENT Ron Armstrong asks about our priorities ... .. .......... .. 4 TWO ANGELS AND AN ALBATROSS How did it get this far? At the time Finding suitable transport in Zaire ...................... .. .. 6 of writing the deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait has not A MODERN PARABLE been reached. War has not yet from Brazil, by Peter Briggs .............. .. .............. .. 6 begun and the estimated deaths of thousands have not taken place. We YOU CAN SEE THE FRUITS are still praying for a last minute Roz Williams sees the fruit of yesterday's work ...... .... 7 solution. By the time you read this, of course, the situation may have A MISCONCEPTION changed dramatically and our worst about Brazil, corrected by John Furmage ....... ..... .... 8 fears realised. BICENTENARY SERIES However, we've been watching Who can be satisfied? the armies assemble and the massive airlifts of materials and - continued from last month ............ ....... .... .. ...... 9 personnel. How many billions of Hannah Marshman, a remarkable woman ......... .. .... 11 dollars and pounds are being PROBING MISSION invested in confrontation and On having been a missionary .................. .... .... .. .. 13 conflict? So much so that the government says it cannot give SNIPPINGS AND CLIPPINGS anything to help the millions of Some extracts from missionary letters ..... ..... .......... 14 people starving in Africa. What an upside-down world we IN VIEW live in! Why can't we invest as much News of the church and the world ........ ............ .... 16 energy and resources into the cause CALL TO PRAYER of peace with justice? Why can't we spend as much money in trying to BMS Prayer Guide update .... ... .... ............ ... .... .. 18 even out the inequalities between MISSIONARY MOVEMENTS etc ............ .. ......... 19 rich and poor? One of the emphases in this The BMS shares with partner churches in: edition is about giving, our giving Angola France Sri Lanka to the work of Jesus Christ through­ Bangladesh India Thailand out the world. We believe this is a Belgium Jamaica Trinidad right priority for Christians, a right use of our resources. In fact it has Brazil Nepal Zaire been our belief, shared by Baptists El Salvador Nicaragua throughout the country, for nigh on 200 years. MISSIONARY HERALD General Secretary As we have said so many times The Magazine of Revd Reg Harvey before, we are unashamedly a mis­ The Baptist Missionary Society sionary society. Whilst we do not PO Box 49, Baptist House Overseas Secretary ignore crises and disasters, whilst 129 Broadway Revd Angus MacNeill we quickly respond to emergencies' Didcot, Oxon OX11 8XA needs where we can, we are not an Telephone: 0235 512077 Editor aid agency. Our aim is to work Telex : 94070435 BMSB G Revd David Pountain Fax: 0235 511265 alongside Christians worldwide in order to proclaim the good news of Design God's love in Jesus Christ in word Anthony Viney and in action. This is mostly not quick and dramatic but long-term, Copyrig ht Enquiries about service overseas to: 1991 Baptist Missionary Society Personnel Secretary like the quiet growth of a mustard photoset and printed by Joan Maple seed. It is a work to establish God's Stanley L Hunt (Printers) Ltd kingdom of peace and justice and Rushden, Northamptonshire ISSN 0264-1372 love. He rald FEBRUARY 1991 ---------------------------------6Ub4 IT'S FUN! Coming forward with the offering at Upoto, Zaire .___ _______.. ___:..:... __..a effect on others far beyond meeting their immediate needs. In modern society we CHRISTIAN GIVING IS responsible have been brainwashed giving, based as it is on the constancy of God's giving, which never fails . This is into thinking that where we might begin to quarrel with ELL THAT'S WHAT the young man who says that 'giving is everything ought to be one young Christian fun' if by that he means making W discovered when he emotional responses to different appeals instant. Anneka Rice began to put part of his income on one each month. side each month. God's Old Testament promise, can get things done in 'It has set me free to give - to respond marked by the sign of the rainbow, was to urgent needs, to help someone quietly that 'while the earth remains, seedtime and anonymously. Taking so much out and harvest ... shall not fail .' His love is about thirty hours so we of my income each month means I don't constant. It is His people who break miss it and I always have something promises, not God. And then 'God so have no patience with available to offer. I now enjoy giving. loved the world that He gave His only Each month I sit down and decide how son.' anything that takes a the money is to be distributed. It's fun!' Christian giving emerges from a love That's such a refreshing attitude like that. In spite of set-backs, seeming long time. especially when compared with the failures and ingratitude it continues. grudging way so many ofus give to In modern society we have been used about the Kingdom was the Christian work. After all, didn't Paul say brainwashed into thinking that mustard seed. Any gardener knows that that God loves a cheerful giver? everything ought to be instant. Anneka after sowing seeds a lot of patience is That spirit of joy in giving is often Rice can get things done in about thirty required. You can't rush things and if seen in Zaire when the offering of those hours so we have no patience with you do try to force growth that only who are mostly poor is accompanied by anything that takes a long time. weakens the plant. singing and dancing and smiling faces . True Christian giving is always ~ M -, . cheerful, joyful, fun , because it emerges i - . from a spirit of thanksgiving rather than a sense of duty. 'It's because God has given so much ,,'" to me that I want to give in return,' said one elderly church member. 'God has ' always given me what I ~eed and more so. And He's given enough for me to be • ,j generous. What's more, He's given Jesus. i• I can't hold anything back when I look ~ ,\ ►- at the cross and realise how much my ,r ...., . _....,. ~~~~ salvation has cost.' Perhaps the Serampore mission would BMS Treasurer, Arthur Garman, So that is where Christian giving not have lasted very long in our instant reminded us of this at the November begins, with God Himself. Just as His society. It was not until seven years after General Committee when he said, 'I generosity produces thanksgiving and Carey and Thomas arrived in Bengal believe that we must continue the work generosity in us, so our giving can that they were able to baptise the first we have started and to which we are produce joyful and grateful thanksgiving Indian convert! committed.' in others. In this way our giving has an One of the illustrations which Jesus It is so easy to be diverted from the ► Herald FEBRUARY 1991 tMM.-f--------------------------------- ◄ work in hand, which may have lost its of our resources. glamour and excitement, to respond to In a letter to the Baptist Times last year the latest glossy television appeal. But one correspondent suggested that BMS what kind of responsible stewardship is expenditure should be equal to the that? If God has called us to begin a giving of the churches. On the surface work He surely calls us to sustain it. that appears to be commonsense Of course emergencies cannot be housekeeping. Yet what does it really ignored. Christians especially must never mean? Something like, 'God's demands tum a blind eye to the sufferings of upon us should be equal to our giving!' those around them, but neither can they Isn't that back-to-front? ignore long-term solutions. That would Although the door to mission be like a community spending all its continues to be wide open, the BMS money and energies in treating people does not respond to every request, suffering fro~ cholera and typhoid however attractive, coming to it from whilst neglecting the need for a source of overseas. The priority in mission is clean water and the provision of a good God's not ours. Through thinking, sewerage system. praying and a great deal of discussion in committees and working groups the IF CHRISTIAN GIVING is rooted in main question is, 'What is God saying to God then it is also sacrificial. It's going us?' to hurt. It means walking the extra mile. We could start with the balance sheet. 'God loves a cheerful giver' It means responding according to God's Our questions could be, 'How much demands and expectations and not have we in the bank? How much are the according to our limited understanding churches giving? What can we afford?' SHOULD WE INVEST MORE IN THE KINGD4 ·-. That's the question in the mind of BMS ~ ;,. Scottish Representative Ron Armstrong ·-·· ~ 1/ ~ HRISTIAN the Baptist Union of Scotland declared a BMS can only look to the support ORGANISATIONS ARE deficit of £20,000 in April. coming from committed Baptists. C facing a drought. Newsworld The Rev Peter Dowsett of the Church A recent Daily Telegraph report, headed has reported that secular cash appeals Missionary Society says, 'Perhaps active 'Charities lose out as donors begin to are siphoning off Christian funds and Christians need to decide what their tighten their belts' pointed out that fewer that Christians, in responding to priorities are and to give to activities people overall in Britain are giving to successive world disasters, are tending to with the Church rather than responding charity and those who continue to give divert money from Christian missionary to secular appeals.' are giving less.
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