Besides the more than $100,000 budgetted and approved by the general body for this financial year for our missions work, on Missions Sunday we raise a supplementary missions fund of $15,000 only. $10,000 will be used to subsidize mission and exposure trips mainly to Myanmar. We want to raise a new generation of missionaries and to do that short mission trips are a proven method of exposing people to the challenges and needs of the mission field. $3,500 will go to subsidize the Deaf Faith Fellowship mission trips to the deaf of Myanmar and Vietnam. The deaf in the countries outside Singapore are even more needy than the hearing and this amount will help the deaf members do the work. The last amount of $1,500 is to assist Sim for an additional trip to a restricted country if needed.
This Sunday, all money in church offering envelopes, enclosed with your Sunday bulletins, will go to the above expenditure. Those not in envelopes will go to the church general fund. Money given for this missions supplementary fund that is not expended by the end of the financial year will be absorbed into the church general fund.