News Articles in Cooperative Program

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) – Leaders from across Baptist state conventions and Southern Baptist entities gathered April 15-16 for a training event focused on furthering partnership across the convention. The Cooperative Program is the nearly 100-year-old mechanism for funding cooperative missions work across the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and the 41 state or regional Baptist conventions.

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) – Hispanic, Asian and African American leaders from across the Southern Baptist Convention gathered in the Sunshine State April 16-17 to share how they see God working and to share ideas.

When First Baptist Church in Bettendorf, Iowa, needed to decrease its Cooperative Program (CP) giving in a financial pinch this year, the congregation consented on one condition: that they could increase it as soon as possible back to its previous level of 16.5 percent of undesignated receipts. Leaders agreed, and First Baptist approved temporary CP giving of 10 percent.

A little more than 100 years ago, Baptist soldiers and volunteers were returning to America from World War I-ravaged Europe, lamenting the physical, emotional and spiritual devastation they were leaving behind. Back home they found many of those same needs in a traumatized America.

GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (BP) – Green Valley Baptist Church is “a family that enjoys doing things together,” says John Guillott, pastor since 2011. The senior adult church invests in its community’s children, youth, “things that come our way,” each other, and Southern Baptist mission causes.

NASHVILLE (BP) – While National Cooperative Program giving in March was slightly below the monthly budget goal, year-to-date giving through the first half of the fiscal year is still slightly ahead of last year’s mid-point total.

“Impossible things are only impossible alone.” Though I was shaving and only halfway paying attention to the radio advertisements that were droning on in the background, that line caught my attention.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) — Michael Cabell’s position is heavily tied to helping churches reengage with the Cooperative Program. However, giving through CP isn’t the first thing he preaches to those congregations.

NASHVILLE (BP) -- Ethiopian church planter Fisseha Tesfaye expresses excitement about the newly formed African and Caribbean Church Collective of the Southern Baptist Convention.

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. – When three families here decided they wanted to plant a church that would be outward-focused, they turned to Southern Baptists for help.