Cooperative Program

NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist churches in New England have 10,000 more people attending worship now than they did a decade ago. In Ohio, churches gave a record amount through the Cooperative Program last year, and in Michigan, baptisms increased by 15 percent.

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers didn’t make it to the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t deter Highland Crest Baptist Church.

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.