Stories tagged with: cooperative program

• New Hope New York thrives with creative thinking and Cooperative Program giving

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, May 04, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- "Intensive, pastoral, strategic thinking" is necessary to lead during the COVID-19 pandemic, said pastor Mahlon Smith of New Hope Baptist Church in Watertown, N.Y.

  But he doesn't have to think about the church's giving 10 percent of its offerings to missions through the Cooperative Program, the way Southern Baptists work together in local regions and throughout the world. Read More

• COVID-19 puts 'true value of the Cooperative Program on full display'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, April 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP) -- Salvations through text messages and drive-in worship services, meals for those suffering financial losses, protective gear for first responders and financial resources for pastors are products of the Cooperative Program at work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  "We need one another, this COVID-19 is all the more reason for [the Cooperative Program]," Tallahassee, Fla., pastor Ronny Raines said. "We're better together, but we need one another." Read More

• FIRST PERSON: We're better together

  by Peter Yanes, posted Friday, April 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Through major transitions like moving to Philadelphia from the Philippines and a more recent relocation to Nashville, Peter Yanes has seen the value to Southern Baptists' cooperation. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The Cooperative Program 'on full display' during pandemic

  by C. Ashley Clayton, posted Thursday, April 23, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  The past few weeks have brought every Southern Baptist to a coronavirus crossroads, says Ashley Clayton. But the crisis has proven the strength and importance of the Cooperative Program. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before us

  by Julio Arriola, posted Wednesday, April 22, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Julio Arriola tells the story of his wife's grandparents, missionaries to Mexico. They and others were "fully supported by the SBC because of the generosity of our churches and their members," he says. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Every church on mission

  by Willie McLaurin, posted Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  No matter the size of the congregation, every church has a responsibility to do its part in fulfilling the Great Commission, Willie McLaurin says. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: We will not retreat: The real reason for supporting the Cooperative Program

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  When the coronavirus (COVID-19) began to spread across the globe, our work as Southern Baptists did not stop, Ronnie Floyd says. Now is the time for a renewed commitment to our mission. Read More

• SBC seminary students getting much more than academic training

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Friday, April 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist seminaries have stepped up to provide students support both financially and personally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the aid seminaries have been able to offer students can be credited to the Cooperative Program's (CP) positive impact on operating budgets.

  Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS), said CP is essential to the mission of MBTS in ways far greater than simply being a revenue source. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: How a pandemic 100 years ago ushered in a new era of Baptist giving

  by Charles Jones, posted Wednesday, April 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Canceling services due to illness is not new to Baptist life. Writer and pastor Charles Jones details how Baptists have responded to other pandemics and come through stronger than before. Read More

• Illinois church stretches its impact with CP despite Coronavirus

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, April 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  NOBLE, Ill. (BP) -- Picture an old-style, white, wooden structure with a bell tower capped by a steeple, set in the middle of corn fields, alongside a cemetery. The church looks to be far from the coronavirus and yet is as affected by it as any church in America.

  But the people at Freedom Baptist Church, organized by 10 people in 1852 who wanted freedom to worship according to God's Word in what was then a heavily Roman Catholic area, are not discouraged. Read More