Cooperative Program

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.

DELTA, Colo. – An uncommon number of youth have become ministry leaders and missionaries from one small-town church in western Colorado. 

WHITEFISH, Mont. (BP) – At the very moment pastor Curt Sparkman spread his arms preaching a sermon at Lower Stillwater Lake in northwest Montana, a bald eagle stretched its wings overhead, Sparkman told Baptist Press.

MADISON, Miss. (BP) – Chip and Reid Stevens were driving back to the afternoon session of the Mississippi Baptist Convention’s annual meeting on Oct. 28 when they were asked about the Cooperative Program. Responses gelled around the concepts of connection and action.

Funding missions cooperatively is a hallmark of Southern Baptist churches. But here’s a question worth asking: Do the children in your church know that?

HOUSTON – Generous churches produce generous people.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Total Cooperative Program giving for the 2024-2025 fiscal year was $186,091,048.26, which is just over 2 percent below the budget goal of $190,250,000.