Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are $4,909,539, or 3.96 percent, above the year-to-date budgeted goal, and are 1.08 percent behind contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from Frank Page, SBC Executive Committee president and chief executive officer.
“Our mission boards and other SBC ministries continue to fulfill their convention-adopted ministry assignments in spite of the prolonged sluggishness of the economy,” said Page. “We give God the praise for his gracious provision for these vital missions’ and ministries’ endeavors.”
As of May 31, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program allocation budget totaled $128,909,539, or 103.96 percent, of the $124,000,000 year-to-date budgeted amount to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America. The total is $1,404,864 less than the $130,314,404 received through the end of May 2011.
The convention-adopted budget is distributed as follows: 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 & Religious Liberty Commission. – BP