Southern Baptist Convention Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Cooperative Program=== The Cooperative Program (CP) is the organization's unified funds collection and distribution program for the support of regional, national and international ministries; the CP is funded by contributions from affiliated congregations.<ref name="CP1">{{cite web |title=What is the Cooperative Program? |url=http://www.cpmissions.net/2003/what%20is%20cp.asp |access-date=March 21, 2010 |publisher=Southern Baptist Convention |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225094418/http://www.cpmissions.net/2003/what%20is%20cp.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, the local congregations of the denomination reported gift receipts of $11.1 billion.<ref name="2009AR-CP">{{cite book |title=Annual of the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention | publisher = Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention |date=June 2009| pages=109β11| url = http://sbcec.org/bor/2009/2009SBCAnnual.pdf |access-date= March 21, 2010 }}</ref> From this they sent $548 million, approximately five percent, to their state Baptist conventions through the CP.<ref name="2009AR-CP" /> Of this amount, the state Baptist conventions retained $344 million for their work. Two hundred and four million dollars was sent on to the national CP budget for the support of denomination-wide ministries.<ref name="2009AR-CP" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page