Love Offering Sunday

November 9

Give today!

Each November is Bellevue’s Love Offering, a special tradition in which we give above our normal tithes and offerings to support a unique ministry focus. This year, we’ll unite under the theme Here I Am So All May Hear—supporting Bellevue Missions locally, nationally, and internationally.

God calls each of us to surrender our life as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1), laying down our time, talents, and treasure so that all may hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. When we respond with a willing heart by praying, giving, or going, we become part of fulfilling the Great Commission, which every Christian has been commanded to obey.

Through strategic ministry partnerships and outreach initiatives, your giving to this year’s Love Offering will help advance the Gospel across Memphis and around the world. Your generosity fuels our mission to be a catalyst for spiritual awakening. As you begin praying about how God is calling you to give, also ask how He may be calling you to go.

Join us for Love Offering Sunday on November 9 so you can be part of what God is doing through Bellevue to share the Gospel in Memphis and beyond!

A Letter from Pastor Ben Mandrell

Dear Bellevue Family,

Lynley and I are so excited to be part of our first Love Offering here at Bellevue, which is going to support local, national, and international missions.

Just before Jesus ascended to heaven, He called His disciples to fulfill the Great Commission: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:19–20). This command applies to everyone who has said yes to following Jesus—we are all called to share Jesus and make disciples.

Whether you’ve been in church since childhood or today is the day you’ve decided to follow Jesus, you have a role to play in what God is doing here and around the world. The Lord has purposefully placed you where you are, and He has a specific way He wants you to be part of His mission to tell everyone that Jesus loves them. Will you say yes?

Thank you in advance for your cheerful giving to Love Offering 2025. May God bless your offering and use it to bring many lost people to Jesus.

Gratefully,

Ben Mandrell

So All May Hear

The Great Commission is clear: Go make disciples of all nations. Jesus established the Church to fulfill this command. Acts 1:8 provides our strategy: Make disciples in the community where God has placed you and then send faithful disciples to the nations to keep sharing Jesus, making disciples, and planting churches to reach the outermost parts of the earth.

Love Offering 2025 will fuel our work as a church and individually to obey the Great Commission. As you read this booklet and discover how this offering will be used, pray and ask the Lord, “How would You have me give of my time, talents, and treasures so that someone else can come to know You?”

For the glory of God and the extension of His kingdom, we want to lay our lives down as living and holy sacrifices and proclaim, “Here I am so all may hear!”

“Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Who will I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.”

Isaiah 6:8

Where your giving will go

Local Missions

Bellevue’s local missions strategy is three-fold: serve Cordova, do compassion ministry, and support churches.

Christian Mobile Dental Clinic

Since 2009, the CMDC has provided free dental care to thousands of people across Memphis—meeting physical needs while sharing the hope of the Gospel.

  • 27,303 patient exams conducted
  • $6.3 million in free dental care provided
  • 19,451 people who have heard the Gospel

Bellevue Loves Memphis

The ministry of Bellevue Loves Memphis mobilizes our church to serve our city through strategic Gospel-centered projects. We host the following local missions projects each year:

  • Car Care
  • Mid-South Mission of Mercy
  • Bellevue Loves Memphis Workday
  • Mission Memphis
  • School Supplies Giveaway
  • Jesus Loves Memphis Workday
  • Sharing Hope
  • Bellevue Christmas Store

Local Partnerships

Your giving helps Bellevue build strong ongoing partnerships with schools, churches, and ministries across Memphis, including those listed below. Click here to learn more about some of our local missions partners!

  • Dexter K–8 School
  • Miracle of Redemption Baptist Church
  • Binghampton Community Church
  • ARISE2Read
  • Memphis Union Mission

National Missions

Church planting is Bellevue’s primary strategy for taking the hope of Jesus across the United States. The need for the Gospel in our nation is great, with over 250 million people who have no relationship with Jesus. The way to reach those people is through evangelism and discipleship in the context of the local church.

North American Mission Board (NAMB)

Bellevue cooperates with over 46,000 other churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to fulfill the Great Commission through missions. Through cooperative giving, we help plant churches in the U.S. in partnership with NAMB. NAMB and other churches like Bellevue have partnered to plant more than 11,000 churches since 2010.

Bellevue supports church plants in the following states:

  • Colorado
  • Montana
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • Oregon

Missions Projects

Each year, Bellevue supports over 30 national and international short-term missions projects. Your giving toward the Love Offering makes this possible!

Attention, first-time goers: Bellevue is committed to helping you engage in a short-term missions project. That’s why we will provide a $300 scholarship to all qualified first-time goers. Go to bellevue.org/missions-projects or text MISSIONS to 901901 for more info!

International Missions

Bellevue is committed to taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth. We have missionaries and ministry partners serving in Central and South America, East Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.

International Mission Board (IMB)

The IMB is the missionary-sending organization of the SBC. Cooperating churches of the SBC fully fund more than 3,500 full-time missionaries around the world. A portion of this year’s Love Offering will be sent directly to the IMB to fund our IMB missionaries.

$83,000 will fund one missionary for an entire year.

Missionary Care

Families who serve as church planters and missionaries undergo extreme amounts of stress and loneliness. They need consistent prayer and encouragement to continue the work they are called to do. Missionary care is one way we support those we have sent to the mission field.

Want to get involved? By joining an Advocacy Team, you can be in consistent contact with one of our long-term missionaries and support them through prayer, words of encouragement, and helping meet their physical needs. Text MISSIONS to 901901 to get started!

Here I Am

Every follower of Christ should be involved in missions. At Bellevue, we have three simple ways for you to find your place of service: pray, give, and go. As you consider your next step, ask yourself this question: Am I willing to lay my life on the altar as a living and holy sacrifice (Romans 12:1–2) and to declare, “Lord, here I am so all may hear!”?

Here I Am to Pray

Prayer moves the heart of God, and we want to be people of prayer. Commit to praying with us for:

  • The lost people of the world who need a relationship with Jesus.
  • Our local, national, and international partners.
  • Bellevue Missions
View prayer guide

Here I Am to Give

Giving to Love Offering 2025 will support Bellevue’s local, national, and international missions ministries and fund our annual gifts to NAMB and the IMB.

 

How to give

Give or pledge here or through the Bellevue app.

Write a check payable to Bellevue Baptist Church and write “Love Offering 2025” in the memo.

Love Offering envelopes are located at the offering receptacles located throughout the church and in each lobby.

Here I Am to Go

Engaging in missions can look different depending on who you are, but everyone should take their next step of obedience. Short-term, mid-term, and long-term missions opportunities exist locally, nationally, and internationally.

View missions projects

Pray for Our Committee

Please join us in praying for these committee members as they prayerfully steward the Love Offering gifts.

Committee Members

Miguel Ibanez, Chair

Sharon Bennett

Andrew Bryant

Bob Burklow

Steve Campbell

Paula Cowart

Jeff Foreman

Dwight Grayson

Phillip Hardee

Donnie Johnson