Cooperative Program giving from South Carolina Baptist churches continues to trail budgeted needs through the first eight months of 2013.
The $18.13 million received through the end of August was $871,087, or 4.58 percent, short of budgeted needs, according to information released by Pam Carroll, chief financial officer for the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
At the national level, year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist missions and ministries were 0.15 percent above the year-to-date budgeted goal and 1.36 percent below contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to SBC Executive Committee president and CEO Frank Page.
The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists’ channel of giving through which a local church is able to contribute to the ministries of its state convention and to the missions and ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention with a single contribution to its state convention.