ATLANTA — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a moderate Baptist group based in Atlanta, has received a $4 million gift from an anonymous donor that it will use for its missions work.
“We are most appreciative of this wonderful gift,” said Daniel Vestal, coordinator of the Fellowship, in a statement issued April 9. “It is because of individuals like this one that the global missions work of CBF can be enhanced and strengthened.” The Fellowship’s global missions team has increased from 18 in 1992 to 115 today.
The gift will be used over a three-year period, with 80 percent of it designated for missionaries and 20 percent for their projects.
The organization intends to use the money to support 12 new career missionaries and 13 new Global Service Corps missionaries, who do some of the fund raising for their assignments that range in length from one month to three years.
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