Cooperative Program

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Cooperative Program started off strong in the first month of the fiscal year, as receipts came in just over budget.

DELTA, Colo. – An uncommon number of youth have become ministry leaders and missionaries from one small-town church in western Colorado. 

WHITEFISH, Mont. (BP) – At the very moment pastor Curt Sparkman spread his arms preaching a sermon at Lower Stillwater Lake in northwest Montana, a bald eagle stretched its wings overhead, Sparkman told Baptist Press.

MADISON, Miss. (BP) – Chip and Reid Stevens were driving back to the afternoon session of the Mississippi Baptist Convention’s annual meeting on Oct. 28 when they were asked about the Cooperative Program. Responses gelled around the concepts of connection and action.

Funding missions cooperatively is a hallmark of Southern Baptist churches. But here’s a question worth asking: Do the children in your church know that?

HOUSTON – Generous churches produce generous people.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Total Cooperative Program giving for the 2024-2025 fiscal year was $186,091,048.26, which is just over 2 percent below the budget goal of $190,250,000.

GEORGETOWN, Ind. – It’s probably hard for a pastor not to become complacent when he’s been at a solid church for 18 years.

One of the Executive Committee’s core responsibilities is managing and distributing Cooperative Program funds to SBC entities.  This is becoming more challenging because of how churches and state conventions are changing the definition of Cooperative Program giving.  For example, so far in 2025, the Executive Committee has received gifts in 33 different alternate “Cooperative Program” configurations.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program receipts in August were substantially above budget, bringing the year-to-date total closer in line with budget goals with one month left in the fiscal year. Designated giving, at nearly $9 million, was also significantly higher than August of last year, continuing a trend seen in the summer months.