IMB missionaries to Philippines share Lottie Offering importance

Jeff and Kim Cruse, International Mission Board missionaries to the Philippines for 17 years, are onsite in a small community just outside the town of Valencia. In cooperation with Baptist Global Response, Jeff and Kim are doing careful surveys of where the worst damage is and what is needed both immediately and for the longer term for these victims of the typhoon, many of whom have lost everything.

They are visiting the many Baptist churches in this area to form a network of Baptist Filipino pastors, believers and local community leaders to start the long-term task of helping this side of Leyte Island recover from the aftermath of the world’s largest typhoon, Haiyan, (called Yulanda in the P.I.) which devastated a large portion of the central Philippines just over two weeks ago.

It is through the sacrificial and generous giving of Southern Baptists to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and through the Cooperative Program that personnel like Jeff and Kim are living all around the world and ministering daily in normal circumstances but ever ready and able to do what is needed when disasters like the Super Typhoon Haiyan devastates the people they love and serve.

The Cruses voice their thanks to Southern Baptists for their giving through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and through the Cooperative Program in this video.