Baptists

Since its inception in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has always had one mission —the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20). To fulfill its assigned part of this divine mandate, each SBC entity made special offering appeals to the churches. This method was referred to as the “societal” approach to missions and resulted in severe financial deficits, competition among entities, overlapping pledge campaigns, and frequent emergency appeals which greatly hampered the expanding ministry opportunities God was giving Southern Baptist. Some entities took out loans to cover operating costs until pledges or special offerings were received.

In 1919, the leaders of the SBC proposed the 75 Million Campaign, a five‐year pledge campaign that, for the first time, included everything – the missions and ministries of all the state conventions as well as that of the Southern Baptist Convention. Though falling short of its goals, a God‐given partnership of missions support was conceived – The Cooperative Program. Since its launch in 1925, the effectiveness of the Cooperative Program has been dependent upon individuals, churches, state conventions, and SBC entities cooperating, working toward a common goal of sharing the gospel with every person on the planet.

https://www.sbc.net/missions/the-cooperative-program/about-the-cooperative-program/

Working through a missions co-op allows people to pool their resources and talents to feed more hungry people, start more churches, fund more missionaries, reach more people in prisons, clothe more needy and share the hope of Christ with more people who so desperately need to hear it.

It’s more than just financial. Through a missions co-op not only are financial gifts combined to do more but so are mission trips that help us be the hands and feet of Christ while sharing His love. When the 2 million Texas Baptists work together, more people are touched and the duplication of efforts is decreased, enabling more cooperative missions around the state, nation and world. Furthermore, by focusing on key locations, entire areas can be reached through constant relationship building and mission work.

It is doing missions cooperatively to reach more people with Christ’s message of hope.

You give a percentage of your income to your church. Your church gives a percentage of its budget through the BGCT Cooperative Program. This money is combined with money from the other 5,600 churches cooperating with the BGCT and funds the missions, evangelism and ministry efforts approved annually by the convention.

Each church must choose how the money it gives through the Cooperative Program will be designated. The BGCT adopted budget calls for a 79% / 21% breakdown. This means that 79% of the money your church gives stays at work in Texas and 21% goes to the international missions partner of your choice ( SBC, BGCT). However, your church can choose whichever percentage breakdown God is leading you to give.

March 2021 Year to Date (YTD):

Actual BGCT CP $7,578097
YTD Budget $6,756,816
YTD Last Year $7,757,846

Comparisons:

YTD Comparison to Budget = 112.1%
YTD Comparison to Last Year = 97.7%

https://www.texasbaptists.org/cooperative-program

Total Cooperative Program: $38,952,201.00

• Remains in State: $28,743,782.00
• % 73.8
• Forwarded to SBC: $10,208,419
• % 26.2

Total Cooperative Program: $26,964,384.70

• Remains in State: $11,594,678.70
  
• %43.0
• Forwarded to SBC: $15,369,706
  
• %57.0