Mission:Dignity honors retirement-aged Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) ministers, workers and widows struggling to meet basic needs through advocacy and financial assistance.
Mission:Dignity is the heart of GuideStone® and has been at the center of our work since we began more than 100 years ago.
Widow and poet, served alongside her husband, Dial, who pastored in South Carolina for more than 30 years.
Much of the funding for our ministry comes from the direct gifts of individuals, groups and churches in our Southern Baptist family. Through these gifts, recipients can buy groceries, pay a utility bill, or get prescriptions and medical care.
It’s more than just the money. We are called to serve those who served us.
The elders who are good leaders are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. 1 Timothy 5:17 (CSB).
Now in retirement, many retirement-aged SBC ministers, workers and their widows face real financial need. Mission:Dignity helps them live with dignity.
Click the images below to hear about the direct impact of Mission:Dignity from a local pastor, state convention executive and Mission:Dignity recipient:
Served the Lord together for more than 31 years
An established endowment funds the operating expenses of Mission:Dignity. This covers staff salaries, printing, postage and other expenses. Every dollar of current Mission:Dignity annual gifts is used for monthly distributions to retirement-aged SBC ministers, workers and widows in need.
For tax purposes, you cannot designate a recipient. If you know of someone who may need assistance, we’ll be glad to contact them and see if they might qualify for Mission:Dignity. Call us at 1-877-888-9409 with their name and address, and we’ll contact them.
Many of our recipients have given us permission to share their names by way of a prayer card. We will be glad to provide you with the name, address and birthday of a retirement-aged pastor or widow so you can pray for and communicate with them. You may even find an opportunity for a service project or meeting a particular need if the person is local to your area.
More than 2,600 individuals receive assistance each year. Approximately 60% of the recipients are widows. One out of four recipients is a pastor’s widow age 85 or older.
Individuals can qualify for $275 each month. Married couples are eligible for $375. For the neediest persons with at least 25 years of ministerial service and much lower (poverty-level) income limits, these amounts may be doubled to $550 and $750, respectively.
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