South Carolina Baptists’ CP giving up slightly in 2015

Cooperative Program giving from South Carolina Baptist Convention churches increased in 2015, marking back-to-back years of modest growth.

Churches forwarded $27,988,055.32 in CP gifts in 2015, an increase of $362,646.25 (1.31 percent) over 2014, according to information released by Pam Carroll, SCBC chief executive officer.

The increase wasn’t enough to meet a projected state CP budget of $28.5 million, however, falling just over half a million dollars short.

In December 2015, the SCBC Executive Board voted to supplement from the convention’s fund balance an amount needed to make a $1 million gift directly to International Mission Board. (The state convention budget also forwards 41 percent of CP receipts to the Southern Baptist Convention.)

Cooperative Program receipts funded $645,949.63 of the IMB gift, and $354,050.37 will be supplemented from the fund balance in order to raise the gift to $1 million, Carroll said. (If the 2015 Cooperative Program budget had been fully met, the IMB gift would have been $947,997, she said.)

In November 2011, South Carolina Baptists endorsed a Great Commission Resurgence plan that called for annual increases in monies to be allocated directly to the International Mission Board.