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This ministry
seeks to
promote
participation
by churches
in the Cooperative
Program,
the unified
giving program
of Southern
Baptists.
To accomplish
that task,
this ministry
develops
and provides
promotion
and information
resources
for use
with the
memberships
of Florida
Baptist
churches.
Your 2008 Cooperative Program
Dollar Distribution
Budget as approved by the 2007 Florida Baptist State Convention.
To reach our state …
To reach our nation …
To reach our world …
Since 1925, Florida Baptists have partnered with Southern Baptists to reach the world through the Cooperative Program. This God-given, mission-driven strategy unites all Southern Baptists into a mission team to fulfill the Great Commission.
Florida Baptists have found that working together, rather than individually, is a more efficient and effective way of doing God’s work in the world, state and nation. Not every Christian can travel across the globe—or even across the state—to share his or her faith, start a new church or minister to hurting people, but by giving through the Cooperative Program every person has a role in making an eternal difference in the lives of others.
From each gift of tithes and offerings made to a Florida Baptist church, Florida Baptist churches voluntarily send to the Cooperative Program a percentage or a specific amount of their regular offerings. Those funds are sent to the Florida Baptist Convention.
Sixty percent is retained in Florida to implement Great Commission ministry efforts within the state. Forty percent is sent to the Southern Baptist Convention, which when added to money gathered by other state conventions underwrites the national and global work of Southern Baptist missionaries serving throughout the nations.
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To reach our state…
Supporting the mission endeavors of one million Florida Baptists that resulted in 33,461 new baptisms
Planting 140 churches across the Sunshine State
Providing salary supplements for 300 new congregations
Undergirding a mission network of 676 language churches in more than 20 languages
Nurturing 548 at-risk children through the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes
Educating 726 students at The Baptist College of Florida
Equipping 76,000 church leaders
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To reach our nation…
Undergirding the work of 5,135 national missionaries
Establishing 1,458 new churches in fast-growing cities and suburbs; small towns and rural communities
Educating 16,000 future missionaries, pastors and church leaders through the work of six seminaries
Becoming the third largest disaster relief provider in the nation
Click to go to downloadable PDF version of 8.5x11 PAGE.
Click to go to downloadable PDF version of the complete BROCHURE (17x11, 2 pages)
To reach our world…
Celebrating a record 600,000 baptisms in the past year
Starting 25,497 new churches in 2006
Supporting 5,338 career and 4,200 short-term international missionaries
Ministering to AIDS victims in Africa since 1980
For more information on the Cooperative Program, call 1-800-226-8584,
ext. 3024, or email, Cooperative Program.
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