Giving through the national Cooperative Program is off to a slow start for the 2023 fiscal year.
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee reported churches gave $14,697,627.87 through the CP in November. That amount was 8.27% under the monthly budgeted amount of a little more than $16 million.
November 2022 gifts were also less than November 2021 and November 2020 gifts ($16.45 million and $15.7 million respectively).
A statement from the EC attributed the drop in gifts to “negative economic forces affecting churches and individuals across the country.”
“I am incredibly thankful for the unified efforts of churches giving through the Cooperative Program,” said SBC EC interim president Willie McLaurin.
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