IF THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM is to grow and thrive in the future, then leaders elected to national positions within the Southern Baptist Convention must come from churches committed to the Cooperative Program and must be CP “advocates” themselves, a report put together by a task force of SBC entity heads and state executives says.
The report, plainspoken and candid, was released Sept. 17 in Nashville, where more than 30 entity heads and state executives gathered to discuss its content. It has 13 recommendations and is the fruit of more than five years of work by the Task Force on Cooperation, an eight-member group composed of four entity heads and four state executives.
The task force was set up in 2000 by the Great Commission Council and state executives to study ways to boost stagnant Cooperative Program growth as well as ways to improve relations between the national body and state conventions.