2023-2024 Mission Budget through the One Fund

When you give to the One Fund, you support missions at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church.  We thank you for being willing to give so that the Gospel can be shared locally and globally through missions.

Radical Heart - $43,900
These funds support Radical Heart as they serve our community by providing food and clothing to families each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

English Classes (ESL) - $2,700
These funds provide the curriculum, snacks, and items needed for our English Classes.  We are able to keep our class registration fee to a minimum of $25 because of this funding.

Room in the Inn - $2,500
The funds provide for the transportation costs and weekly items needed for the men such as undergarments, hygiene items, and bedding.

Operation Christmas Child - $1,500
These funds help us provide shoeboxes for our congregation to pack so the Gospel can go to a child around the world.  It also supports us as we serve as a Drop Off and Central Drop Off location for our community.

Community Mission Opportunities - $24,624
These funds provide support for community organizations such as the Pregnancy Care Center, the Tennessee Baptist Children's Home, and the Tennessee Baptist Adult Home.  It also provides funding for operational costs as well as training for volunteers, volunteer appreciation, education on human trafficking detection and prevention, the ability to step in when new opportunities arise, mission's emphasis during November, summer mission projects, Blood Drives, Women on Mission, targeted invitations to church, and the monthly mission's newsletter mailout.

School Partnerships - $27,400
These funds support the ministry we provide to our school partners:  Hermitage Elementary, McGavock High School, Springdale Elementary, and Grow U.  We provide encouragement to staff, support to help students thrive, and engagement for families at each of these schools.  It also helps support our partners with Everyone's Wilson and United 4 Hope as they help us coordinate with our schools and serve well.

Nashville Baptist Association (Local Church support) - $1,500
Today, churches in and around the city of Nashville are still challenged by evangelism, missions, and special needs of this growing area in Middle Tennessee. The ethnic population of Nashville has grown to include 70 different people groups, many of whom have yet to hear the gospel.  We no longer have to go overseas to reach the world – the world has come to us, and the Nashville Baptist Association assists the local church in reaching our city for Christ (nashvillebaptistassociation.org).

Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions - $4,225
The Golden Offering is church planting across Tennessee where there is no gospel witness. It’s churches coming together to serve their neighborhood to see people saved, baptized, and set on the road to discipleship. It’s Baptist Collegiate Ministries sharing the hope of Jesus on university campuses. The Golden Offering provides invaluable financial support for Tennessee ministries (tnbaptist.org).

Annie Armstrong Offering (North American Missions) - $7,925
The Annie Armstrong Offering empowers North American missionaries to bring the gospel to the lost. With over 269 million lost people, North America and its major cities are some of the most spiritually dark places in the world. Your giving equips every missionary to reach lost people in the United States and Canada. One Hundred percent of these funds go directly to missionary support (namb.net).

National Mission Trips - $7,150
These funds provide support for our mission trips to New Orleans, Louisiana as we partner with Bridge City Baptist Church, Decatur, Alabama as we partner with Love Packages, Bon Aqua, Tennessee as we serve with The Drove, and a mission trip for students and college age.

Lottie Moon Offering (International Missions) - $23,751
Starting in 1888, the Lottie Moon Offering was established to empower the international missions efforts for Southern Baptists. Your giving to the One Fund enables missionaries like the GALE Family to be sent to make disciples and multiply churches among unreached peoples and places for the glory of God. One Hundred percent of these funds go directly to missionary support (imb.org).

GALE Support from Hermitage Hills - $21,800
These funds directly support the GALE family, missionaries from Hermitage Hills Baptist Church, as they serve on the mission field and help provide renovations for the dining hall at the school they serve.

Elevate Ethiopia - $13,700
Elevate Ethiopia is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Their mission is to work with families through empowerment and education programs to help them become self-reliant and positive impactors in their families, communities, and country.  These funds directly support the feeding program they provide for the students and families with which they work and the tutoring program where each student receives 2 hours of individual tutoring each week.

Metanoia Ukraine - $8,500
Metanoia Ukraine provides many programs to those in the city of Odesa, Ukraine.  These programs include student clubs, English clubs, boundaries groups, prison ministry, individual counseling, children's camps, choose life information, post-abortion counseling, and ministry to soldiers.  These funds will help provide 57 medical kits to the soldiers in Ukraine. (www.metanoiaukraine.org)

World Mission Trips - $29,050
These funds go toward supporting individuals from Hermitage Hills as they go on mission.  We want people to be involved in going where God is leading as they step into missions.  So, when you commit to going on a mission trip through Hermitage Hills, the mission's budget provides funds for a portion of the trip.  Many in our church family would not be able to participate in missions without your generous giving to the One Fund.

Cooperative Program - $89,910
Southern Baptist Churches work together to support missions.  The Cooperative Program allows churches with large or small congregations, in rural or urban areas, just beginning or established to participate in missions locally and globally.