Ways to Help Promote the Global Outreach Offering Year-Round

By: Terry Tramel

Director of Global Outreach & Leadership Development

IPHC World Missions

The Global Outreach (GO) Offering is more than just a special collection—it’s a chance for our churches to join hands with God’s mission around the world. As pastors and leaders, the attitude we bring to this offering sets the tone for how our people will respond. When we lead with vision, faith, and joy, our congregations are inspired to give generously and purposefully.

Below you’ll find practical reminders of what to avoid and what to embrace as we encourage our people to step into this kingdom opportunity. Together, let’s lead our churches into the kind of giving that makes an eternal difference.

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11 Attitudes for Pastors to Avoid

1. If you don’t give your people an opportunity to give, then you will have a “NO Offering.”

2. If you allow almost no time to promote this effort, then you will likely have a “LOW Offering.”

3. If you are negligent in promoting, receiving, and sending in the funds, you will have a “SLOW Offering.”

4. If you keep forgetting to promote and receive the offering until the end of the year, you will have an “UH-OH Offering.”

5. If you exert a half-hearted effort in promoting the offering, it will produce a half-hearted response with a “SO-SO Offering.”

6. If your GO Offering is up one year and down the next, it will be a “YO-YO Offering.”

7. If you threaten your church members with judgment if they don’t give, you will have a “WOE Offering.”

8. If you only receive the offering out of loyalty to the denomination, you will have an “OWE Offering.”

9. If you only mention money and never ministry when receiving these funds, you will have a “DOUGH Offering.”

10. If your members only give for the applause and accolades of each other, then you will have a “SHOW Offering.”

11. If your motive is to have a larger offering to merit recognition by leaders, then you have a “CROW Offering.”

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7 Attitudes for Pastors to Embrace

1. If you truly view the offering as a joint venture between the Lord, the senders, and the sent ones, then you have a “CO Offering.”

2. If you know where the offering is going, how to promote it over time, and set a reasonable and reachable goal, then you have a “KNOW Offering.”

3. If you believe and teach your people that they will receive far more than they give, then you will have a “SOW Offering.”

4. If you convey to your people that it is the Lord who stirs their hearts to give, which offering is then sent to WMM, who then disburses the funds to projects around the world, then you will have a “FLOW Offering.”

5. If you frequently shine the Gospel light on the lost world and constantly point out that the Church is at its brightest when it gives to repel the darkness, then you will have a “GLOW Offering.”

6. If you are always encouraging your people to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord, that increase will affect their giving, and you will have a “GROW Offering.”

7. If you have Jesus’ last words “Go ye into all the world…” echoing in your heart, you will do everything you can to fulfill His commission and will lead your people to give in the “GO Offering.”