CP giving 1.13% above year-to-date projection

CP giving 1.13% above year-to-date projection

NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee (EC) are $174,276,734.99, or 1.13 percent, above the year-to-date budgeted goal and are 1.42 percent ahead of contributions received during the same time frame in 2014, a news release from EC President Frank S. Page reported. 

As of Aug. 31, gifts received for distribution through the CP Allocation Budget represent 101.13 percent of the $172,333,333.33 year-to-date budgeted amount to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America. The total is $2,434,843.37 more than the $171,841,891.62 received through the end of August 2014. August CP allocation receipts for SBC work totaled $15,417,216.61. Designated gifts received during August amounted to $5,551,127.74.

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