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Pastors Value Cooperative Program
Southern Baptist pastors have high opinions of the Convention’s Cooperative Program, according to a study conducted by LifeWay Research

The survey of 1,066 SBC pastors found 81 percent agree the Cooperative Program fuels an aggressive global enterprise of reaching the unreached people groups around the world. Similarly, 80 percent say the Cooperative Program provides partnership opportunities for local, state, and national missions.

The study also indicates that pastors’ support for the Cooperative Program does have its limits. One in five pastors (19 percent) say the strategies of the SBC entities that receive Cooperative Program dollars are not moving in the appropriate direction and that SBC entities are not using their contributions effectively. However, the majority (55 percent) agrees the SBC entities supported by the Cooperative Program are moving in an appropriate direction. And 52 percent say the entities are using their contributions effectively. Read More

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From the edge of the mountain, I can see the stark contrast of another world. Far below, the sun is setting and lights are coming on across a modern city at the edge of the jungle. Just behind us are the seven villages of an indigenous people in the forests of South America. Read More

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