PRIORITIZING THE 2015 LMCO
By Eric Atkins Pastor, New Friendship Baptist Church, Cleveland Several months ago our church received a certificate and letter from the International Mission Board congratulating us on reaching one of the four Lottie Moon Challenge Levels. New Friendship has received these certificates before so I wasn’t surprised to receive another one. This year, however, it […]
WRAP-UP: 23 STATES INCREASE CP FOR SBC MISSIONS & MINISTRY
NASHVILLE (BP) — Twenty-three state conventions voted to increase the portion of Cooperative Program receipts being forwarded to Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries in the coming year, continuing a trend inspired by passage of the Great Commission Task Force recommendations five years ago. This year, Florida Baptists made the largest shift, moving from 41 […]
TBC CP GIFTS AHEAD OF LAST YEAR’S PACE
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches contributed $2,278,724 in November, the first month of the 2015-16 budget year. The amount is $14,693 or 0.6 percent more than was given in the first month of the last fiscal year. The total, however, is $575,443 or 20.16 percent below budget needs.
MISSIONS, COOPERATION DRIVE SMALL TENN. CHURCH
Baptist Press GREENFIELD, Tenn. (BP) — The men at Bethel Baptist Church reach out to the unchurched men in their community each autumn by showing off their culinary skills at a wild game supper, preparing turkey, deer, raccoon, crappie, catfish, rabbit, duck and other critters. Meanwhile, the congregation’s Women on Mission excel each year at […]
DOES YOUR MISSIONS RHETORIC HAVE SUBSTANCE?
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director The world is in chaos. Wars rage. Terror perpetrated by evil people has nations on edge. Millions are displaced, and the debate over refugee resettlement is burning white hot. The world’s spiritual soil is as fertile as it ever has been and cries out for a broad spreading […]
CP STARTS FISCAL YEAR 3.26% OVER BUDGET PROJECTION
Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — Contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee in October were 0.18 percent above last year’s opening month of the convention’s fiscal year and 3.26 percent above the projected budget for the first month, according to a news release from SBC Executive […]
CHURCH PUTS OTHERS BEFORE SELF
Gives large gifts to Southern Baptist missions/ministries while building new facility By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENFIELD — Bethel Baptist Church here celebrated a momentus day on Oct. 18. The congregation began meeting in its new facility. Church members did this with a clear conscience — they had continued their tradition […]
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM — WHERE IS THE MONEY?
By Ronnie Floyd President, SBC The Southern Baptist Convention is a convention of churches that partner together to reach the world for Christ. As we aspire to this biblical vision of presenting the gospel to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations, we must find a way to increase […]
THE “1% CHALLENGE FOR CP”
By SBC staff The “1% Challenge” is simply a request to every Southern Baptist pastor and every Southern Baptist church to increase their Cooperative Program gifts by one percent of their church’s undesignated contributions. Frank S. Page, president of the Executive Committee, issued this challenge during the Executive Committee report at the Southern Baptist Convention […]
Winning Tennessee for Jesus Christ
By Roc Collins Pastor in Kingsport As followers of Christ we have been called to “Go and Make Disciples.” What a great task is ours! There is no one person who can fulfill that mission alone. God, in His infinite wisdom, has granted us the opportunity to fulfill the Great Commission by working together. Certainly […]