Our combined BMF dollars enable the denomination to do far more than any single congregation could do alone. We receive BMF special offerings at Easter, again a few weeks later on Pentecost, at Thanksgiving and at Christmas. In addition to the Basic Mission Finance offerings, there are two other special offerings each year. We receive the Week of Compassion special offering in February. Week of Compassion is the disaster relief and development program of the church.
Reconciliation is the program of the church that works to overcome racism.
Again, the offerings received in that special offering are used to fund just the Reconciliation mission of the church. That offering is usually received in late September. But those special offerings all six of them do things that we as a congregation should be doing. Westhampton Christian Church isn t big enough or wealthy enough to send a missionary to Africa or build a retirement center, offer disaster relief or operate a college, university or seminary. But through those six special offerings, we have missionaries all over the world, we have twenty colleges and universities, retirement centers, homes for abused and neglected children, centers for the handicapped, disaster relief, programs that resist racism, and much more.