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Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's portion of the Cooperative Program are 3.11 percent ahead of the same time frame at the end of 2013 and 3.84 percent under the SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection for the year.
A Southern Baptist church of mostly farmers in rural Arkansas supports international missions by trusting God and giving to the Cooperative Program.
23 state conventions have increased their Cooperative Program allocations to be sent beyond their borders for Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries.
Montana Baptists will send one percent more of their Cooperative Program receipts to national and international Southern Baptist Convention causes in 2015 than in 2014.
God called D.J. Jenkins to reach a community with a population of around 40,000. In many ways Studio City is like a thousand other communities of around 40,000 people throughout North America. Except that it's very different. Studio City is in the heart of Los Angeles, Calif.
Randy Davis harkens back to 1887 in China to underscore the ongoing relevance of missionary Lottie Moon's vision for Christmastime giving for global missions. Davis, executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, also notes how faithful stewardship by Southern Baptist churches is "an eternal investment rather than a budget line item."
IMB President David Platt, adding his voice to this year's prayer emphasis for international missions in the Southern Baptist Convention, writes that global mission is "the purpose for which each of us was created." Through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, he writes, "you are fueling and sustaining a missions movement with eternal ramifications."
A California Roman Catholic diocese that owns the property that once was the Crystal Cathedral has received a 20 million donation for its renovation work
Cooperative Program gifts for Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministry are 2 percent above budget projection -- and 6.35 percent ahead of last year's pace.
Small Baptist church in Pleasant Grove, Utah -- in the middle of a mostly Mormon community near Brigham Young University -- overcomes economic and local challenges while seeking to honor God with its increased giving to Southern Baptist missions and ministry through the Cooperative Program.
