ATLANTA — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) reports contributions from churches and individuals slightly ahead of last year’s halfway mark.
The Atlanta-based CBF received nearly $6.4 million in total contributions for July–December 2001, up 1.6 percent compared to the same period in 2000.
Undesignated gifts to CBF’s missions and ministries budget, meanwhile, increased 4.1 percent.
Contributions to the 2001–02 Offering for Global Missions declined 10 percent, totaling more than $1.2 million. The offering goal is $6 million.
Other designated gifts were up 9.2 percent over the previous year. These included more than $207,000 in contributions to two CBF emergency relief funds — one for ministries in New York City and Washington, D.C., following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and a second for refugee ministries in Afghanistan.
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