While Alabama Baptists topped Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program (CP) giving nationwide for the 2008–09 fiscal year, they couldn’t quite keep the momentum for the 2009 state budget year. State CP receipts came in 5.4 percent, or $2,359,421, under the $46 million budget and 2.55 percent, or $1,141,740, less than 2008. “The economic downturn definitely affected Cooperative Program giving in…