In Tennessee:
Golden Offering
for Tennessee
Missions
The annual offering,
taken in September,
is named in honor of
a couple who were
instrumental in
bringing needs of
the state to
people’s attention
in the early 1900s.
W.C. Golden was
Tennessee’s state
missions director
(now executive
director) and his
wife was president
of Tennessee Woman’s
Missionary Union.
They urged Tennessee
Baptists to give to
and to pray for
missions in
Tennessee. In 1943
the state missions
offering was named
to honor the
commitment and
service of the
Goldens.
The first state
missions offering
was taken in 1902
and $800 was
collected.