Happy Birthday Cooperative Program!!!
In 1925 Southern Baptists decided to try something new. Rather than each church supporting a few missionaries who would travel around the country raising support, they decided to pool their mission funds together to more missionaries to take the name of Jesus to the nations.
This year, Southern Baptists will celebrate a century of partnering together to fulfill the Great Commission through the Cooperative Program, or “CP.” According to the SBC’s website (www.sbc.net), “The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists’ unified plan of giving through which cooperating Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their undesignated receipts in support of their respective state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.”
The CP serves as “the financial fuel for reaching every person for Jesus Christ in every town, every city, every state, and every nation.” Today, through CP your church supports missionaries serving around the world, church planters throughout North America, and reaching the lost across the Dakotas. In addition, your CP dollars provide seminary education for the next generation of pastors and missionaries.
Recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program will include a special celebration on May 13, in Memphis, TN, the site of the signing of the original CP agreement. There will also be time of celebration at the 2025 annual meeting of the SBC in June in Dallas, TX.
Let’s join in the celebration here in the Dakotas by renewing our commitment to reaching the lost of North and South Dakota and around the world through our cooperative effort. Let’s celebrate 100 years of partnership by strengthening and continuing that partnership for the next 100 years.