What is the Cooperative Program?
Hundreds of ministries, thousands of workers, and millions of lives touched and changed forever through the transforming power of the Gospel . . .
It all begins with you.
When you give to your local SBCV church, a portion of your offering is given to the SBCV. The SBCV takes part of that money and distributes it among the various state ministries in Multiplying, Maturing, and Mobilizing churches. The other part is in-turn given to the Southern Baptist Convention in order to support national and international ministries including the IMB, NAMB, and Southern Baptist Seminaries.
Every dollar you give has an impact in life-changing ministries all around the world.
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Where your giving goes:
- 50.25% is invested in Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions.
- 49.75% is invested in SBCV statewide missions.
Of that 49.75%:
Try out our Cooperative Program Offering Calculator.
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SBCV distribution of CP funds in 2010.
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Resources
Interested in telling your church about the CP and how it works? We've created some resources to help you do exactly that.
www.CPmissions.net
Learn more about the Cooperative Program and how you can promote CP giving in your church by visiting the CP website, www.cpmissions.net.
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Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke 6:38
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A Vision for the Future
During the SBCV 2009 Annual Homecoming, the member churches of the SBCV voted to approve the Vision 20/20 Report, a comprehensive vision for the next ten years of ministry.
Among the elements of the Vision 20/20 Report was the proposal that the SBCV be a sacrificial missional network in which greater resources are channeled to national and international mission causes through the Cooperative Program:
"The SBCV will partner with national entities to fulfill the Great Commission. The SBCV already sets a national standard by forwarding a full 50% of its CP receipts to the SBC. The V20/20 Team recommends that this be increased by a quarter of a percent each year for the next 10 years, subject to an annual review. This is based on the conviction that God’s Word is true:
'Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.' (Luke 6:38).
Early estimates are that this will mean an additional 1.2 million dollars for national and international mission causes over the next decade. . ."
This means that each year heading towards 2020 a larger and larger portion of your giving will be donated from the SBCV to Southern Baptist Convention national and international mission efforts. By 2020, a full 52.5% of every dollar that your church gives to the SBCV will go towards this goal.
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