Cooperative Program

If you want to get Mark Clifton talking, ask him about a church’s impact on its community and beyond. Want to see him find another gear? Call those churches “small.”

NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist efforts to spread the Gospel worldwide are receiving boosts from the Cooperative Program reallocation as well as new partnerships, International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood said during the recent SBC Annual Meeting.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for June was below the budget goal for the month. Total giving remains a little more than 3 percent under budget for the year. In actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($140,927,408.94) is close to the amount given through June of last year ($141,224,321.92) – a difference of .21 percent.

NICEVILLE, Fla. – The Church on Bayshore has grown from 500 in Sunday morning worship to more than 1,300 since James Ross was called as pastor in 2017. The reason for the growth, Ross says, is because the church shifted its focus to young families, and the church’s senior adults have supported that change.

NASHVILLE (BP) – In 1917, Southern Baptists decided the Convention needed a central office to handle its business throughout the year. When the Cooperative Program was established a few years later, the SBC Executive Committee received a small portion of the budget each year.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for May was above the budget goal for the month. Total giving remains about 3 percent under budget for the year. In actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($126,641,680.27) is almost identical to the amount given through May of last year ($126,667,880.91) – a difference of .02 percent.

How we will fund missions and ministries in the future is a crucial question for our time. Southern Baptists must recover the CP as our primary method for funding our cooperative missions and ministries.

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – Eternity Baptist Church over the years has purchased all the land on its block. No. 8 of Eternity’s 10 prayer requests for 2026 is, “What should we do with it?”

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for April was below the budget goal for the month and total giving remains about 3.5 percent under budget for the year. However, in actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($110,336,543,27) is almost identical to the amount given through April of last year ($110,474,314.95) – a difference of .12 percent.

BAGDAD, Ky. — For the first time in the history of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and Crossings Camps, a summer camp is scheduled June 4-8 at Cedarmore for Deaf and hard-of-hearing (HOH) students.