News Articles in Cooperative Program

GILLETTE, Wyo. (BP) – A Florida transplant with a rodeo background two years ago relaunched what was started in 1963 as Gillette’s First Southern Baptist Church and in 1971 renamed Westside Baptist Church.

At the start of this new year, I’d like to invite all of us as Southern Baptists to think of 2024 as the year before a big birthday. I’d like us to think in terms of anticipation, excited expectancy, and yes, year-long preparation for 2025, when together we will celebrate the 100th birthday of the Cooperative Program.

NASHVILLE (BP) – National Cooperative Program giving for December was slightly above the budget goal, while year-to-date totals remain just over 3 percent below budget three months into the fiscal year.

HORSHAM, Pa. – Riverside Community Church, planted in 2000, has started four other churches, all with men from the church.  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – An in-depth look at state and regional conventions across the Southern Baptist Convention shows a deliberate intent by state/regional leaders to work together and promote unity of purpose.

SPOKANE, Wash. (BP) – For many people, Christmas means family – even family that may not be kin.

NASHVILLE (BP) – National Cooperative Program giving for November was slightly ahead of giving in November 2022 even as overall giving is still behind after the second month of the fiscal year.

As a local pastor in Kentucky, I would sometimes hear a fellow pastor ask, “Wes, do you think we should continue supporting the Cooperative Program?”

RURAL Southwest Idaho (BP) – Nearly half of the Sand Hollow Baptist Church congregation spend an electronics-free missions week each summer in Atlanta, Idaho, which is 45 miles from the nearest paved road.

NASHVILLE (BP) — The 2024 fiscal year is off to a sluggish start as giving to the National Cooperative Program Allocation Budget is a little more than 5 percent behind budget.