Stories tagged with: cooperative program

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: It makes more sense than ever

  by Steve Scoggins, posted Friday, August 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  Steve Scoggins relays a young Baptist leader's question: "Wouldn't you be excited if there was a missions and church planting network … to mobilize tens of thousands of churches and harness a budget of a few hundred million dollars for the sake of the Gospel?" Read More

• Church's 'heart attitude' conveys Cooperative Program

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, August 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (BP) -– Giving to God's work is central to the "heart attitude" of members of Bethel Baptist, the largest church in southern New Mexico's Mountain Valley Baptist Association.

  The 400 or more who gather for Sunday morning worship allocate 10 percent of undesignated offerings to missions through the Cooperative Program -- Southern Baptists' channel of support for state, national and international outreach -- and an additional 10 percent for other missions enterprises. Read More

• Nat'l CP 2.80% over YTD budget projection

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee in June were 2.80 percent above the projected budget through nine months of the current fiscal year and 0.13 percent above the amount received during the same period last year. Read More

• Church stays 'traditional' amid gated communities

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  ARRINGTON, Tenn. (BP) -- "We have a choir. We have an organ and piano," pastor Reed Buntin said. "We're just your traditional Southern Baptist church."

  For Triune Baptist Church, "traditional" also includes a missions mindset rooted in the Cooperative Program and discipleship rooted in Sunday School. Read More

• What's next?: CP panel tackles road ahead

  by Marcia Knox, posted Monday, June 24, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Panelists discussed a range of topics on the Cooperative Program panel stage during Southern Baptist's annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala. Among those topics were the future of the Southern Baptist Convention, resourcing churches to confront the sexual abuse crisis, and women in ministry.

  Moderating the "Vision SBC" discussion on June 10 in the exhibit hall were Jonathan Howe and Amy Whitfield, podcast co-hosts of "SBC This Week." Panelists were: Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee; Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board; and Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board. Read More

• Floyd highlights Cooperative Program in videos

  by Timothy Cockes, posted Monday, June 24, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Via four videos focusing on the Cooperative Program, Executive Committee President/CEO Ronnie Floyd underscored its importance during the SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala.

  The four video clips -- now posted at talkcp.com -- show how the Cooperative Program serves as the key channel of Southern Baptist support for a range of state, national and international mission and ministries. Read More

• In 'living sent,' church sustains its CP giving

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, June 04, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- This state-capital First Baptist Church exists as a "missions factory."

  "We want to be a factory that produces disciples who look like Jesus and engage our world with practical expressions of God's love and light," Jay Wolf, pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., told Baptist Press.

  "Our goal is to be like the church at Antioch," said Wolf, who has led the 190-year-old church since 1991. "We want to be an inclusive church family that is multi-generational and multi-racial. Like the Antioch church we want to exalt the Savior, equip the saints and evangelize the seekers in our neighborhoods and in the nations." Read More

• Nat'l CP 3.47% over YTD budget projection

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, June 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 May were 3.47 percent above the projected budget through eight months of the current fiscal year and 0.93 percent above the amount received during the same period last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd. Read More

• Nat'l CP 2.67% over YTD budget projection

  by Staff, posted Thursday, May 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee in April were 2.67 percent above the projected budget through seven months of the current fiscal year and 0.68 percent below the amount received during the same period last year. Read More

• Church holds to Baptist traditions that 'still work'

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Thursday, May 02, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  LAFAYETTE, La. (BP) -- When F.A.I.T.H. evangelism training first rolled out nationally in 1998, the outreach leader from First Baptist Church in Lafayette took note.

  Starting that year and every year since, the Louisiana church has had 50 to 60 people train twice a year in the F.A.I.T.H. initiative that combines evangelism with the caring ministry of Sunday School. Read More