Thanksgiving Offering

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Did your church have a good offering for missions?

[Lee Branum]

Our pastor retired last June, and as we went through the process of finding a new pastor, we were able to pay our assigned budgets eight months into our church year. Our giving actually stayed the same and increased on several months. We now have a new pastor as of late October. As NMI President in our local church, I always want to let our people know where we stand financially with our WEF assignment and local and district obligations. We did well on our Thanksgiving Offering, it will be a great start on next assembly year's assignment. Our teens are involved in the "30 Hours of Famine" emphasis, and we showed the DVD segment from the quarterly NMI DVD that is sent out from Kansas City. I think that the DVD is the greatest thing since VHS tapes! I use them every NMI meeting. They work well with the study material.


LeeB

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Our church went over their goal, but I don't know what the goal was. We are away from church so often, with Dwayne speaking somewhere else, since he retired from the pastorate, that I can't keep up with everything.
I have been the NMI president many times, over the years. It seems good to sit back and just help with things now.

I mentioned George and Wilbur Branum to you, on the thread where I ask about the Thanksgiving offering.
My nephew and his wife are missionaries in Madagascar.

[Lee Branum]

My father was one of a family of eight children from central Indiana. He was the only one to come west to Washington State due to WWII. He was assigned to Geiger Field in Spokane, where he met my mother during the war.
His father's name was George. I have googled the family name, and there are many Branums in Texas and east of the Mississippi. I have limited contact with my father's side of the family. The contact I have is living in Bloomington Indiana where my father lived just before WWII. He also lived in a town by the name of Jasonville, and was born in Kentucky. My mother is from here, so I have a much better handle on that side of my family.
So, if I'm related to the Branums of SC, I am unaware of it. I met two of my fathers siblings, one aunt from Bowling Green KY now deceased, and an uncle from Bloomington IN, now deceased. I am in contact with a step daughter of my uncle from Bloomington who is the wife of a retired elder on the SW Indiana district.

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

I don't know where George and Wilbur Branum are from. They held revivals in my home church in SC, but I moved to Tennessee in 1959.