National CP gifts exceed $14 million for July

NASHVILLE — While many Southern Baptists used the month of July to take vacations, their faithfulness to Cooperative Program  (CP) giving was hard at work, said Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Executive Committee.

For July, SBC CP gifts totaled $14,568,580.61, or $17,889.30 above July 1999’s total of $14,550,691.31.

For the year to date, CP giving is 5.94 percent above the same period in the last Oct. 1­–Sept. 30 fiscal year. At the end of July, a total of $148,696,892.03 had been received, compared to last year’s mark of $140,363,173.74.

For the SBC CP Allocation Budget, the year-to-date receipts totaled $148,696,892.03, or $15,710,439.53 above the budgeted $132,986,452.50.