NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee are 1.70 percent above the same period last year.  As of Dec. 31, 2012, gifts received for distribution through the Cooperative Program Allocation Budget totaled $45,019,758.93, or $750,555.16 above the $44,269,203.77 received through December 2011.