ATLANTA – For anniversary, birthday or holiday gifts that make a lasting impact, there’s a new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions gift catalog that offers designated giving options in every price range.

The online catalog, updated monthly with descriptions of the latest needs from CBF Global Missions field personnel, "gives people a new way to give money and to engage with field personnel in CBF Global Missions," said Steve Johnson, the Fellowship’s Global Missions communications liaison.

An American tendency is to purchase material gifts for special occasions, but the gift catalog opens the door "for people to give a gift to meet someone’s basic needs," Johnson said. The Fellowship sends a card notifying a person that a gift was purchased on his or her behalf. Honorary and memorial gifts can also be made.

Thirty-three cents will buy a bread and yogurt lunch for a Macedonian orphan. Six dollars puts an Albanian Bible in the hands of a worship attendee at Way of Salvation Baptist Church in Kosovo. For $75, a new bicycle will enable evangelists and church planters to more efficiently travel from village to village in India. For $160, a child in Southeast Asia can go to school for a year.

Field personnel see the gift catalog as a way of opening the door to new partnership opportunities. "We clearly see dots being connected between the young people and others in CBF churches who’ve joined forces to ‘purchase’ pigs or seedlings and, in the process, partner with distant hill tribe families whose livelihoods are improved through these gifts," said Rick Burnette, one of CBF’s field personnel serving in Thailand.

The gift catalog is available at http://www.thefellowship.info/Global%20Missions/giftcatalog/giftcatalog.icm

CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.