Cooperative Missions Champions

• Committed to reaching our communities, our state, our nation, and the world with the life-changing message of salvation through Jesus Christ.
• Passionate about sharing our faith and expanding the Kingdom of God through the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

Who is a Cooperative Missions Champion?

• A Cooperative Missions Champion serves as an advocate for Biblical stewardship, missions education, missions involvement, and missions giving in the church, association, and convention.
• As a Cooperative Missions Champion, the church will be challenged to grow in giving through the Cooperative Program and to give sacrificially an amount of its undesignated funds that shows a serious commitment for the Great Commission.
• As a Cooperative Missions Champion, the church will be challenged to grow in giving through the local Baptist association. The desired goal is 3% of undesignated offerings. Churches already at this level or above are encouraged to seek God's will related to increased giving through the association.
• A Cooperative Missions Champion partners with his local associational missionary and other state missions staff to challenge other churches to become Cooperative Missions Champions.

YOUR CHURCH can become a world missions center with personal involvement in reaching a lost world for Jesus Christ, "Caring People - Together Touching the World." A commitment to developing Biblical stewards and giving through the Cooperative Program and your local Baptist association means that each member of your local church is participating in fulfilling the Great Commission.

Baptist Associations
The South Carolina Baptist Convention continues to be passionate about missions support through the Cooperative Program. We strive to respond to the challenge of an Acts 1:8 strategy for global missions through the Cooperative Program. South Carolina Baptists have and are continuing to be faithful in our giving, our praying, and our going. There is, however, an unfinished task yet to be accomplished. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of the population of South Carolina is unreached, along with millions more unreached throughout North America and around the world. This defines the urgency of our churches answering the call to be New Testament churches and follow our purpose of one mission - the Great Commission.

The Cooperative Program
GOALS:

1. To challenge every South Carolina pastor to lead his church in becoming a Cooperative Missions Champion.
2. To develop the esssential awareness of Biblical stewardship.
3. To call churches to a  higher level of cooperation and commitment to ministry and missions through their local Baptist association and through the Cooperative Program.
4. To continue to inform South Carolina Baptist churches about the effectiveness the efficiency of Cooperative Program missions and ministries.
5. To challenge every South Carolina Baptist church to adopt an Acts 1:8 strategy as a way to fulfill the Great Commission.

CONSIDER THE POWER OF 1%
With just 1% more, what could we accomplish for the Kingdom of God? Look at these figures and ask yourself what a 1% increase in Cooperative Program gifts would mean for the advancement of the Kingdom and missions outreach.

During 2005, South Carolina Baptist churches received $401,460,193 in undesignated receipts. Of this amount, an average of 8% was given through the Cooperative Program for a total of $32,193,208.

If South Carolina Baptist churches had increased Cooperative Program gifts by 1%, our Cooperative Program gifts would have been $36,207,809. This would have been an additional $4,014,601 for ministry and missions in South Carolina and around the world.

WHAT CAN ONE CHURCH DO?

• Teach and preach Biblical stewardship as essential in the life of every believer.
• Educate your members about the Cooperative Program and associational missions and what their giving means to Kingdom advancement beyond your church.
• Encourage your members to consider a hands-on mission project related to your association or convention.
• Increase the church's giving through the Cooperative Program for the next budget year.
• Increase the church's giving through the association for the next budget year.

CONSIDER WHAT THIS WOULD MEAN FOR YOUR CHURCH.

• Members trained and mobilized for missions involvement and committed to missions giving.
• Members who take Biblical stewardship seriously and follow Biblical principles of giving proportionately as an act of love and obedience to God.
• A church committed to an Acts 1:8 strategy reaching your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth.

For further assistance with resources and information, contact the Cooperative Program Office of the South Carolina Baptist Convention at (800)723-7242 in state or (803)765-0030, ext. 1800.

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