Gifts to the Lula Whilden World Missions Offering are accepted throughout the year but receive special emphasis in the months of October and December. Fellow church member Lula Whilden was the first single female career missionary sent by the Foreign Mission Board, arriving in China a year before Lottie Moon. She was born in Camden and grew up in SC, attending the Greenville Female College, now known as Furman University. She joined First Baptist in April 1868 and departed for Canton, China, in 1872. While in China, Lula took to heart the blind girls with whom she worked. She returned to the US in 1914, and died in 1916. Lula is buried in Greenville’s Springwood Cemetery. Read about her on our website.
Gifts to this offering support missions personnel and partners of the Alliance of Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina and the work done through our missions affiliates. In addition to the envelopes provided in the pews, donations may also be made online or via text message. Visit firstbaptistgreenville.com/give/ for more information.
Our theme for the year is belonging and this offering helps us extend that theme outside of our walls. To help us reach our goal of $100,000, all gifts made at the Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols will go to the Lula Whilden World Missions Offering. Please prayerfully consider your gift to help us reach this goal.