One day after the release of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s final report, Kentucky Baptist Mission Board members passed a resolution reaffirming the Cooperative Program (CP) as “the essential avenue of support for missions and ministries.”
The resolution was approved without opposition during the mission board’s annual spring meeting, May 3–4 at Cedarmore Conference Center in Shelby County. During the opening session, Kentucky Baptist Convention President Don Mathis cautioned board members to be wary of “any effort to place the Cooperative Program in a group of missions giving.”
“My opinion is that it will be the destruction of the Cooperative Program, and when the Cooperative Program is destroyed, it will remove the effectiveness of our special giving because CP is the foundation of what we do,” said Mathis, staff evangelist at Eastwood Baptist Church, Bowling Green. (BP)
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