Cooperative Program

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.

GEORGETOWN, Ind. – It’s probably hard for a pastor not to become complacent when he’s been at a solid church for 18 years.

One of the Executive Committee’s core responsibilities is managing and distributing Cooperative Program funds to SBC entities.  This is becoming more challenging because of how churches and state conventions are changing the definition of Cooperative Program giving.  For example, so far in 2025, the Executive Committee has received gifts in 33 different alternate “Cooperative Program” configurations.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program receipts in August were substantially above budget, bringing the year-to-date total closer in line with budget goals with one month left in the fiscal year. Designated giving, at nearly $9 million, was also significantly higher than August of last year, continuing a trend seen in the summer months.

In an age of shifting alliances, denominational decline and theological fragmentation, it’s fair to ask whether long-standing structures still deserve our support. For many Southern Baptists, one of the clearest examples of such a structure is the Cooperative Program — the unified giving plan that has funded our shared mission, theological education and ministry efforts for nearly a century. This “one sacred effort” has launched Southern Baptists to the forefront of missional engagement and evangelistic influence for decades.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Calvary Baptist Church made a commitment years ago to tithe on their receipts by giving 10 percent through the Cooperative Program to support national and international missions and ministries.

NASHVILLE(BP) – A newly available series of interviews with Southern Baptist leaders highlights the importance of active, intentional cooperation in areas such as student evangelism and mobilization, seminary education, missions and sexual abuse prevention.