NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) are 0.63 percent behind the same time frame at the outset of 2009, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Morris H. Chapman.
As of Dec. 31, the year-to-date total of $46,958,455.62 for CP missions is $299,521.08 below the $47,257,976.70 received at the same point a year earlier. For the month, receipts of $13,713,951.49 were 2.56 percent, or $359,827.41, below the $14,073,778.90 received in December 2008.
Designated giving of $13,233,148.31 for the same year-to-date period is 20.3 percent, or $2,232,635.96, ahead of gifts of $11,000,512.35 received at this point last year. The $4,386,363.86 in designated gifts received in December is $1,051,159.10 above the $3,335,204.76 received in December 2008, an increase of 31.52 percent. For the SBC CP Allocation Budget, the year-to-date total of $46,958,455.62 is 91.90 percent of the $51,096,398.16 budgeted to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America. The SBC operates on an Oct. 1–Sept. 30 fiscal year.
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