NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) are 2.57 percent above the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program (CP) Allocation Budget projection and 2.09 percent above contributions received during the same time frame in 2014, according to a news release from SBC EC President and CEO Frank S. Page.
The year-to-date total represents money received by EC by the close of the last business day of May and includes receipts from state conventions, churches and individuals for distribution according to the 2014–15 SBC CP.
The $128,551,618.17 received by EC for the first eight months of the fiscal year — Oct. 1, 2014, through May 31 — for distribution through CP represents 102.57 percent of the $125,333,333.33 year-to-date budgeted projection to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America. The total is $2,633,111.07, or 2.09 percent more than the $125,918,507.10, received through the end of May 2014.
May’s CP allocation receipts for SBC work totaled $17,363,411.14. Designated gifts received in May amounted to $24,064,963.92.
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