Annie Armstrong offering reaches $56.5 million

By Mike Ebert, Baptist Press

TALLADEGA, Ala. (BP) – Southern Baptists gave $56.5 million in 2009 to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.

The amount was 2.7 percent (or $1.5 million) off the previous year’s giving mark and $8.5 million below the stated goal of $65 million.