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What is Alabaster Sunday?
Alabaster
Offering: Building Hope Video |
Each
September and February in our church and in most Nazarene Churches a
large Alabaster Box appears at the front of the church. Most of our
congregation have smaller Alabaster Boxes at home. If you would like an
Alabaster Box, ask one of our ushers. Individuals are challenged to
regularly contribute the cost of items they desire but do not need into
these boxes. Then on "Alabaster Sunday" the money is collected.
Usually a "march offering" is conducted with individuals carrying their
boxes to the front of the church and pouring the money into the large
offering container. 
The
Alabaster Offering provides funds for
property and buildings around the world. It gives a sense of permanence,
the attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to "put down
roots." Eighty percent of the money is used in world mission areas, and
twenty percent goes to multicultural congregations in the United States
and Canada. Alabaster funds help provide land for most Work & Witness
projects. The entire offering goes toward the construction of churches,
schools, medical facilities, and homes for missionaries and national
workers.