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November BGMC Missions Challenge: “Pop Out For
Missions”
Greetings from the “all-new-and-improved” national BGMC office. As many of you may know, David and Mary
Boyd and the whole BGMC team are now working in an all-new BGMC department in order to spend even more
time resourcing you and our churches with new BGMC helps and resources. This brings us to our newest
endeavor called “Pop Out! For Missions.”
Did you know that one-third of the world’s children struggle with inadequate food and drinking water—let alone
having the luxury of soda pop to drink? Our Boys and Girls November Missionary Challenge is to “Pop Out for
Missions.”
The national BGMC office is challenging kids to give up soda pop during the month of November. The money that
would have been spent on soda pop would then be given to BGMC, which helps needy children around the world.
Here’s how it works:
Kids across the nation are to make a pledge to give up soda pop for one, two, or three weeks, ending on
Thanksgiving Day. On that day, kids may once again drink soda pop—remembering not only to be thankful for their
own blessings, but remembering the children around the world who don’t get to celebrate the many material
blessings that we are thankful for on Thanksgiving Day. Kids begin this challenge by taking pledges from their
parents. Parents are encouraged not to purchase soda pop for their kids at restaurants or at the grocery store.
Parents then calculate the savings from their household budgets and pledge this amount towards their kids’ Pop
Out Challenge. (Pledge forms can be downloaded on the BGMC Web Site.)
Kids can also get pledges from Grandma and Grandpa, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, and church-goers in an
attempt to raise as many funds as possible by “Popping Out For Missions!” We challenge you to not only have
your kids take the “Pop Out!” challenge, but to take the challenge yourself as well. See if you can raise more
pledges than the highest child. Kids love challenges like that. Perhaps the girls can compete against the boys, or the
kids against the adults. Have fun as you “Pop Out for Missions!”
BGMC is providing FREE resources for this fund-raising campaign. Provided are 11 x 17-inch Pop Out posters to
display in classrooms and around the church (#715-163), Pop Out flyers to send home with the kids (#715-164),
and Pop Out can labels to put on soda cans (#715-165). We are suggesting that on the Sunday you launch the
campaign, you give each child a can of soda with the Pop Out label on the can. State that this is their last soda until
the campaign is over on Thanksgiving Day. Note: The empty soda pop can could also serve as an offering bank if
the children would like to go door to door or person to person gathering change for BGMC. (The opening would
have to be widened.)
You can order all of these free resources by contacting GPH at 1-800-641-4310. Since these resources are free,
we just ask that you be good stewards and only order what you will need and what you will use.
Remember, BGMC funds help our missionaries to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the
world by supplying them with whatever they need to spread the gospel message. Thanks for participating in this
event to help reach the people of the world!
Missions”
Greetings from the “all-new-and-improved” national BGMC office. As many of you may know, David and Mary
Boyd and the whole BGMC team are now working in an all-new BGMC department in order to spend even more
time resourcing you and our churches with new BGMC helps and resources. This brings us to our newest
endeavor called “Pop Out! For Missions.”
Did you know that one-third of the world’s children struggle with inadequate food and drinking water—let alone
having the luxury of soda pop to drink? Our Boys and Girls November Missionary Challenge is to “Pop Out for
Missions.”
The national BGMC office is challenging kids to give up soda pop during the month of November. The money that
would have been spent on soda pop would then be given to BGMC, which helps needy children around the world.
Here’s how it works:
Kids across the nation are to make a pledge to give up soda pop for one, two, or three weeks, ending on
Thanksgiving Day. On that day, kids may once again drink soda pop—remembering not only to be thankful for their
own blessings, but remembering the children around the world who don’t get to celebrate the many material
blessings that we are thankful for on Thanksgiving Day. Kids begin this challenge by taking pledges from their
parents. Parents are encouraged not to purchase soda pop for their kids at restaurants or at the grocery store.
Parents then calculate the savings from their household budgets and pledge this amount towards their kids’ Pop
Out Challenge. (Pledge forms can be downloaded on the BGMC Web Site.)
Kids can also get pledges from Grandma and Grandpa, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, and church-goers in an
attempt to raise as many funds as possible by “Popping Out For Missions!” We challenge you to not only have
your kids take the “Pop Out!” challenge, but to take the challenge yourself as well. See if you can raise more
pledges than the highest child. Kids love challenges like that. Perhaps the girls can compete against the boys, or the
kids against the adults. Have fun as you “Pop Out for Missions!”
BGMC is providing FREE resources for this fund-raising campaign. Provided are 11 x 17-inch Pop Out posters to
display in classrooms and around the church (#715-163), Pop Out flyers to send home with the kids (#715-164),
and Pop Out can labels to put on soda cans (#715-165). We are suggesting that on the Sunday you launch the
campaign, you give each child a can of soda with the Pop Out label on the can. State that this is their last soda until
the campaign is over on Thanksgiving Day. Note: The empty soda pop can could also serve as an offering bank if
the children would like to go door to door or person to person gathering change for BGMC. (The opening would
have to be widened.)
You can order all of these free resources by contacting GPH at 1-800-641-4310. Since these resources are free,
we just ask that you be good stewards and only order what you will need and what you will use.
Remember, BGMC funds help our missionaries to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the
world by supplying them with whatever they need to spread the gospel message. Thanks for participating in this
event to help reach the people of the world!
| Next BGMC Day is October 28, 2007 BGMC THEME DAY PAJAMA DAY |
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