Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist missions and ministries are 11.14 percent below the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee president and CEO Frank Page.
As of Nov. 30, gifts received by the Executive Committee for distribution through the Cooperative Program allocation budget totaled $28,427,727.02, or $3,563,526.89 behind the $31,991,253.91 received at the end of November 2010.
Designated giving of $7,258,271.13 for the same year-to-date period is 6.47 percent, or $502,322.88, below gifts of $7,760,594.01 received at this point last year. This total includes only those gifts received and distributed by the Executive Committee and does not reflect designated gifts contributed directly to SBC entities.
State and regional conventions retain a portion of church contributions to the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program to support work in their respective areas and forward a percentage to Southern Baptist national and international causes. The percentage of distribution is at the discretion of each state or regional convention. – BP