Stories tagged with: cooperative program

• CP giving off to best start in decade, up 3.28% over last year

  by BP Staff, posted Wednesday, December 04, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee reported the strongest first two months of a fiscal year since 2009 as contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries through the Cooperative Program exceeded $17.3 million in November 2019. Read More

• Arkansas Church 'part of the bigger picture' through CP

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, December 04, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  HARRISON, Ark. (BP) -- First Baptist Church believes its purpose is to be a bridge to Jesus.

  The church where about 350 people participate in Sunday morning worship reaches out in Harrison and spans the distance across Arkansas, north to Canada and other international locations to tell people of God's love for them. Read More

• 'Fruitful' ministry is focus of Alabama convention meeting

  by The Alabama Baptist Staff, posted Tuesday, November 19, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  DAPHNE, Ala. (BP) -- Every four years messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention have traveled to the milder climate of south Alabama to worship, fellowship and conduct business.

  Temperatures, however, dropped to record lows during the Nov. 12-13 sessions at Eastern Shore Baptist Church in Daphne on Mobile Bay. The meeting nevertheless remained "Fruitful," in a theme centered on John 15:5. Read More

• Floyd: Florida Baptists generous in giving, Gospel sending

  by Margaret Colson, posted Wednesday, November 13, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- The Florida Baptist Convention (FBC) "is a model in forwarding as much as possible through the Cooperative Program (CP) to encourage the forwarding of the Gospel to places the Gospel has never been before," said Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

  The FBC sends 51 percent of annual financial receipts from its member churches through the SBC Cooperative Program (CP) as it retains 49 percent in the state. The decision to move to the 51/49 percent model was made by messengers at the 2015 Florida Baptist State Convention annual meeting in Panama City. Read More

• CP giving marks strongest start in 3 years

  by BP Staff, posted Tuesday, November 05, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee reported the strongest start to a fiscal year in the last three years as giving to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries through the Cooperative Program exceeded $15 million in October 2019.

  As of October 31, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program Allocation Budget totaled $15,207,651.44. This exceeded October 2018's budget contribution of $14,454,637.36 by $753,014.08 or 5.21 percent. However, the amount given is less than the $16,375,000.00 monthly budgeted projection to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America by $1,167,348.56 or 7.13 percent. Read More

• Growing after decline, church never lost missions focus

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, November 04, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (BP) -- North Cheyenne Baptist Church never lost its missions focus during a rough decade that saw worship attendance dwindle from 181 to 30. Once considered one of the strongest in Wyoming, the church is regaining its strength.

  Daniel Brubeck, pastor of the church since August 2016, told Baptist Press he takes no credit for the 11 percent of North Cheyenne's undesignated income being allocated to missions through the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program. Read More

• California Baptists meet, decrease CP, urged to 'step up'

  by Holly Smith & Terry Barone, posted Tuesday, October 29, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Holly Smith/CSB

  EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- Amid a challenge for churches to "Step Up!" to increase baptisms, church planting, mission going and missions giving, 410 messengers and more than 100 guests at the 2019 California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting approved a 2020 budget that reduced the percentage of Cooperative Program gifts sent to the Southern Baptist Convention, and passed several CSBC governance-related recommendations. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: When missionaries cry

  by Art Toalston, posted Monday, October 28, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  Missionaries' tears over people groups they love stir in Art Toalston a gratitude for the hearts of missionaries and for the Cooperative Program that helps them fulfill their calling. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: Why does it matter now?

  by Jamie Dew, posted Thursday, October 24, 2019 (4 years ago)

  New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Jamie Dew calls the Cooperative Program "a gift to us that must be protected, preserved and championed by every Southern Baptist." Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: 'Nothing like it'

  by Jason K. Allen, posted Tuesday, October 15, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Jason Allen underscores how Southern Baptists, through the Cooperative Program, have been blessed with an enduring way to support missions and ministry across the nation and throughout the world. Read More