The Cooperative Program is the primary giving system for North Carolina Baptists that supports missions, benevolence and education. Cooperative Program supports the BSCNC staff your state missionaries who help hundreds of churches each year in programs ranging from evangelism and Sunday School to music and discipleship training and insurance and retirement programs for church staffs. Cooperative Program also provides basic support for the Cary offices of North Carolina Baptist Men, so that operating funds they receive through the North Carolina Missions Offering can go even further.

Matthew 28 and Acts 1 make it clear that God expects a local church to send workers far and wide to share the Gospel. Romans 10 promises people will respond when the Gospel is shared. But that promise is accompanied by the challenge to send people who will carry the Gospel. God expects every local congregation, regardless of its location or size, to do missions locally and to the ends of the earth. The question is not whether to do missions. The challenge is to be obedient to God's call the most effective way. The Cooperative Program is one way to help churches be obedient.

Each November, churches send messengers to the BSCNC annual session and the messengers decide on the next year's allocations. Every Baptist church sets its own budget, including what percentage of the budget should be allotted for missions. Most North Carolina Baptist churches set a percentage of their undesignated receipts for Cooperative Program. Through the Cooperative Program North Carolina Baptists have developed an orderly, efficient system of missions support that assures local church autonomy. Congregations have great flexibility in supporting causes they choose. One great strength of the Cooperative Program is that it allows churches of all sizes to work together in Kingdom ministry.

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Article: Why CP flies
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Article: Debt-loaded Baptists moved to CP
Article: Church sees CP as 'tried and true' in missions
Article: The great strength of the Cooperative Program

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