NASHVILLE — Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) for December 2007 totaled $16,493,736.26  — 1.67 percent, or $271,461.03 above the $16,222,275.23 received in December 2006, according to a report released by Morris H. Chapman, SBC Executive Committee president and chief executive officer. The year-to-date total of $49,731,723.42 for CP giving is $2,379,557.16, or 5.03 percent, ahead…