MISSIONS
Has God blessed you in your life? Do you want to be a part of The Great Commission, but don't know how you can contribute? We offer many mission opportunities. God rewards churches that support missions. Come and find out how God is blessing through Inman Park Baptist Church!
Samaritan's Purse Christmas Shoebox Program
Samaritan’s Purse sends gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to children in need around the world together with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Visit this link to find out about Christmas shoeboxes for children: Operation Christmas Child | Shoebox Outreach of Samaritan’s Purse.
If you would like to pack a shoebox this season, we will have them available in the sanctuary and fellowship hall. There is information available on the Samaritan's Purse website, giving you suggestions on how to pack and what to put into the shoebox.
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In 2025, the Inman Park Baptist Church congregation packed over 70 Christmas Child shoeboxes. Help us send over 100 shoeboxes in 2026!
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For more information about Samaritan's Purse, visit http://www.samaritanspurse.org.
CHRISTMAS OFFERING
Lottie Moon
A young woman serving as a clerk for the Foreign Mission Board signed for the small brown package. She probably wasn’t aware at the time that the package contained the ashes of Charlotte Digges Moon — the Lottie Moon who was loved in China and revered in the U.S. and whose legacy would become a symbol of Southern Baptist missions around the world. Forced out of China due to malnutrition and sickness, Lottie’s 50-pound frame could not survive the journey back to the United States. Though thousands mourned her passing, her life’s work in China represented eternity to many. She was the missionary who believed strongly in the teaching of young girls and started schools, though the community’s men scorned her for it. She passionately spoke out against the gruesome practice of foot-binding, offering relief to hundreds of girls whose families were swayed by Lottie’s persuasive arguments against it. She visited thousands of homes to teach the Scriptures, evangelized while she walked from village to village, and led in her Chinese church. She wrote letters back to the U.S. pleading for more funds, more workers and more prayer.
Near the end of her ministry, she had given of herself, her food, her supplies so completely, that she had little left on this earth, but riches abundant in heaven.
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Every year, just before Christmas, Southern Baptist churches, including Inman Park Baptist Church, collect an offering to send and support missionaries to be steadfastly present among those who have never heard the gospel. During 2024, these offerings supported the work of 3,577 missionaries who presented the gospel message an estimated 1.6 million times, resulting in 144,969 professions of Christian faith. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for Foreign Missions, so named at Annie Armstrong’s recommendation, has raised over $5.5 billion for foreign missions.
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For more information, please visit Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® - IMB Generosity.
Some call her “indefatigable.” John Roberts calls her “indomitable.” Roberts is pastor emeritus of Woodbrook Church, formerly known as Eutaw Place Church, where Annie Walker Armstrong spent three fourths of her life in ministry.
At the local church level, Armstrong taught in the Infant class (also called the Primary Department, for children up to age 12) for 50 years. All the while, she maintained an interest in ministering to mothers, immigrants, the underprivileged, the sick, African Americans, Indians, and later in her life, her Jewish neighbors. Without today’s technology, Armstrong wrote letters by hand to all the Southern Baptist foreign societies. On one occasion, she asked them to contribute to the first Christmas offering, which resulted in enough money to send three–not one, as had hoped–missionaries to assist Lottie Moon in China.
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Armstrong died in 1938, the year of WMU’s 50th anniversary. She was buried at Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, in the same cemetery as John Healey, the Second and Fourth Church pastor, who started the first Sunday School in this country, and Richard Fuller. How did she do it all? Roberts asked the same question. Those who knew Armstrong personally told him she had a really intense prayer life that gave her real spiritual energy.
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The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) is a significant fundraising initiative by Southern Baptists, including IPBC, to support missions in North America. Established in 1895 and named after Annie Armstrong, a prominent missions advocate, this offering has raised over $2 billion to date. One hundred percent of the gifts collected go directly to support more than 3,000 missionary families across the United States and Canada, funding church planting, evangelism, and compassion ministries.
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For more information about the AAEO, please visit The Mission - Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.