Stories tagged with: cooperative program

• Changed lives elevate Mile City's CP giving

  by Tim Tune, posted Monday, October 14, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  DETROIT (BP) -- Travis Whittaker of Mile City Church encourages the Detroit-area church plant "all the time" to give.

  "Every Sunday before we have our time of generosity, we always say, 'Hey, 11 percent of every dollar that comes in goes right back into planting more churches like us,'" he said. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: An 'invisible army'

  by Jeff Iorg, posted Friday, October 11, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Through the Cooperative Program, Jeff Iorg writes, Southern Baptists have "stood together for decades to build the largest and most efficient missionary and educational support system in the world. May we honor their legacy by doing even more to advance God's Kingdom." Read More

• Church sees its value in local, nat'l, int'l outreach

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, October 09, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Russian nesting dolls are among Jeff Rasnick's illustrations of the way Southern Baptist churches work together locally, in state conventions and across the U.S. and the world.

  The ethnic flavor of Maruschka or Matryoshka dolls, also known as "nesting" dolls that fit inside each other, adds to the illustration, said Rasnick, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Shelbyville, Tenn. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: Sealed for missions

  by Sandy Wisdom-Martin, posted Monday, October 07, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Southern Baptists' cooperation has had a lifelong impact on Sandy Wisdom Martin of National WMU. "As a child and young adult," she writes, "my heart was sealed for missions. I am a product of the Cooperative Program." Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: Grounded in the Gospel

  by Russell Moore, posted Thursday, October 03, 2019 (4 years ago)

  The Cooperative Program, Russell Moore writes, undergirds the Ethnics & Religious Liberty Commission in "equipping our churches and contending for the faith in the midst of a hostile culture." Read More

• CP exceeds budget for 5th year in a row

  by By BP Staff, posted Wednesday, October 02, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- For the fifth consecutive fiscal year, contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries through the Cooperative Program met and exceeded budgetary expectations.

  As of September 30, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the CP Allocation Budget totaled $196,731,703.44. This exceeded the $194,000,000.00 annual projection to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America by $2,731,703.44 or 1.41 percent. Read More

• Cooperative Program stirs real-life illustrations

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, October 02, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- In geese, Jay Wolf sees an illustration of the Cooperative Program.

  One goose "can fly 1,000 miles alone, but in a flock that same energy expenditure will take a bird 1,700 miles," said Wolf, pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.

  "So if you have the sense of a goose, be part of God's team," Wolf said of Southern Baptists' Cooperative Program. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: A missionary's gratitude

  by Paul Chitwood, posted Tuesday, October 01, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Paul Chitwood relays a message he received from a missionary reflecting the broad scope of Southern Baptists' work supported by the Cooperative Program. Read More

• CP-grateful church: 'We want to be faithful too'

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, September 04, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (BP) -- Connections for people to meet Christ are expanding in the Dakotas.

  Connection Church Belle Fourche in South Dakota -- planted in 2013 by Connection Church Spearfish 13 miles to the south -- is well on its way to helping start three more churches following the launch of Mercy Gate Church in Rapid City, S.D., in 2018. Read More

• Nat'l CP 2.05% over YTD budget projection

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, September 04, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee in August were 2.05 percent above the projected budget through eleven months of the current fiscal year and 0.51 percent above the amount received ... Read More