Cooperative Program

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving fell in December, coming in about 8 percent below budget goals. However, year-to-date giving remains within 2 percent of targets.

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Raising up the next generation of church leaders is “vitally important,” says Brian Frable, pastor of Kona Baptist Church on the Big Island of Hawaii.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Cooperative Program (CP) landscape continues to change, but the rate of change may be slowing.

BEAUMONT, Texas – The sacrificial giving that happens at Calvary Baptist Church today has a direct link to the church’s beginning.

GREENFIELD, Ind. (BP) – Roger Kinion expected to be sent to the mission field. He was, but he also jokes about how God sent him to the corn field.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – The small village of Tablón, Ecuador, sits on a tabletop mountain about 12,000 feet high in the Andes. It’s 32 miles south of the equator and an hour’s drive from the capital in Quito.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving continued to be strong during the second month of the fiscal year, again coming in above the budget goal.

HUDSON, N.C. (BP) – Mount Zion Baptist Church long supported the Cooperative Program before Zach Kennedy arrived as senior pastor early last year. “It’s in their DNA,” said Kennedy, 41.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (BP) – The Cooperative Program helped St. Joe Community Church get its footing 23 years ago. It’s one reason Pastor Greg Byman and the congregation pay it forward by giving through CP, but certainly not the only one.

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