The Cooperative Program turns 100 years old next year. This missions funding plan adopted by Southern Baptists in 1925 has raised over $20 billion since its start. Through the Cooperative Program, Southern Baptists have been able to provide the funds they need to keep tens of thousands of missionaries on the field around the world, in the United States, and … Read More
Southern Baptist baptisms and attendance grow, membership decline slows
By Aaron Earls, posted May 7, 2024 in Cooperating for the Gospel, Cooperative Program, SBC News BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) – Baptisms, worship service attendance and small group participation all grew in 2023 among congregations affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, while the recent decline in total membership among congregations slowed. The Annual Church Profile (ACP) compiled by Lifeway Christian Resources in cooperation with Baptist state conventions details the … Read More
The Cooperative Program: A Brilliant Solution
Imagine 30,000 fellow Southern Baptists coming to your church every year asking for money to help them fulfill God’s calling in their lives. That would be more people than we have in all our Montana Southern Baptist churches combined! It would be about 600 different people each Sunday, which is more people than attend the average Southern Baptist church on … Read More
FIRST-PERSON: Cooperation results from being cooperative
By Jeff Iorg, posted June 29, 2022 in Cooperating for the Gospel, Cooperative Program, SBC News For most Southern Baptists, the phrase Cooperative Program is a denominational code for money. There is nothing really wrong with that since it does describe the major funding process for our work. But the Cooperative Program is much more. It describes people working together, believing they can do much more … Read More
EDITORIAL: Your state convention helps churches reach your state and our world for Christ
My first international mission trip took place on a farm in central Kentucky. As a new pastor in the community, I found myself interacting often with migrant workers from Central and South America. And I soon realized that most were spiritually lost. From conversations with farmers, I learned many of them were as concerned as I was about the eternal … Read More
A Collective Mission
The birth of the church in Antioch is found in Acts 11. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, men from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch where they shared the Gospel with Greeks and a great number believed. When this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to check it out. The grace of God was evident … Read More