ATLANTA — An anonymous donor has made a $5 million contribution to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), designated for global missions.
It is the fourth anonymous multimillion-dollar donation to CBF missions in the last three years, and the second this year. In 2002 CBF received a gift of $4 million. In 2003 it was $5 million. And earlier this year $2 million was given, bringing the total to $11 million for global missions support.
Last year CBF spent $11.3 million on global missions.
The latest gift will be used during the next three years for a variety of missions ministries, including deploying nine new field personnel, helping 15 long-term volunteers, doubling the number of stipends for student summer/semester missions and helping 10 indigenous missionaries.
It also will fund wellness programs, emergency response, HIV/AIDS initiatives, micro-enterprise development grants for the poor, church planting and the group’s rural poverty initiative, according to CBF global missions co-coordinator Barbara Baldridge.
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