SBC Missions by the Numbers

2,218

This is my CP story

My family attended First Baptist Church of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. As a child, I was taught by a lady named Ms. Beasley who went to Guam as a CP-funded missionary. That was my first exposure to the Cooperative Program, because our church supported CP through our budget. Later I attended a CP-assisted Baptist college and earned two seminary degrees at a fraction of the cost of non-SBC schools.

I served as a CP-assisted church planter, then pastored four churches. I led them to be big supporters of CP. As a pastor, I have been part of sending out several missionaries.

One of my children will soon become a career missionary with the International Mission Board. I have been on numerous trips working with IMB missionaries who are grateful for their CP support. I’ve heard non-SBC missionaries lament not having CP support. Our combined CP resources have impacted lostness far beyond what any of us could do alone.

Now I work every day with IBSA, funded by the Cooperative Program, helping Illinois churches “turn inside out” to reach their communities and the world.

This is why I support CP.

The sun never sets on Southern Baptist missions. With SBC missionaries on every inhabited continent, baptizing, teaching, and making disciples extends to the ends of the earth, just as Jesus said.

18,000

3,532

154,701

3,720

67,187 global leaders received theological training

176,795 new people groups and urban centers engaged by SBC missionaries last year

93 missionaries appointed or commissioned by IMB in 2021 new believers through the work of IMB missionaries

3,175

421 UUPGs (Unengaged, Unreached People Groups) still remain