NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee (EC) are 7.19 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection and 1.46 percent above contributions received during the same time frame in 2015, according to a news release from EC President and CEO Frank S. Page.
As of Feb. 29, gifts received by the EC for distribution through the Cooperative Program (CP) Allocation Budget through the first five months of the SBC’s fiscal year totaled $83,293,559.57. The total is $5,585,226.24 above the $77,708,333.33 year-to-date budgeted amount to support SBC ministries globally and across North America.
Designated giving of $97,411,658.13 for the same year-to-date period is 4.91 percent, or $4,555,640.85, above gifts of $92,856,017.28 received at this point in 2015.
February’s CP allocation receipts for SBC work totaled $17,354,857.83. Designated gifts received in February, meanwhile, amounted to $55,161,127.22.
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