Cooperative Program posts February increase

NASHVILLE — February receipts and budget year-to-date gifts to the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) were up compared to the same periods a year ago, according to Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the SBC Executive Committee.

For February 2000, the SBC CP gifts totaled $14,134,992 compared to February 1999 of $13,967,070, an increase of $167,922 or 1.2 percent.

For the SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget for 1999-2000, the year-to-date receipts total $73,179,448 for the first five months of the SBC budget year, Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. That total compares to $70,200,855 for the same period a year ago, a $2,978,593 increase or 4.24 percent.