2022 year-end report from Illinois churches

Illinois Baptist State Association

IBSA uses 56.5% for equipping churches and planting new churches in Illinois, while sending 43.5% to the national SBC to support North American and international missions.

This cooperative-missions funding was created after the “$75 Million Campaign” following World War I. The SBC was financially distressed and missionaries’ work on the field was in jeopardy. The “society method” where individual missionaries came home often to visit churches and ask for money simply wasn’t working. Through the new Cooperative Program, a steady flow of funds meant mission work would continue without threat or interruption. Missionaries could stay on their fields longer, sharing the gospel, baptizing new believers, and starting new churches. Across a century, CP has proven effective through unified, regular, and systematic giving, worthy of enthusiastic participation by SBC churches. CP is worthy of the ongoing education required to keep new believers and new Baptists informed on what their CP offerings accomplish worldwide.

CP continues effectively today. How well it continues tomorrow depends on your vision for reaching the world with the gospel of Christ.