Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $4,764,590.68, or 5.12 percent, above the year-to-date budgeted goal, and are 0.75 percent behind contributions received during the same time frame last year.
As of March 31, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program allocation budget totaled $97,764,590, or 105.12 percent of the $93 million year-to-date budgeted amount to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America. The total is $736,653 less than the $98,501,244 received through the end of March 2011.
The convention-adopted budget is distributed 50.2 percent to international missions through IMB, 22.79 percent to North American missions through NAMB, 22.16 percent to theological education, 3.2 percent to the SBC operating budget and 1.65 percent to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
Designated giving of $116,862,719 for the same year-to-date period is 0.34 percent, or $394,841, above gifts of $116,467,878 received at this point last year. The total includes only those gifts received and distributed by the Executive Committee and does not reflect designated gifts contributed directly to SBC entities. – BP