Some have heard, but have never accepted the Good News

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• Some have heard, but have never accepted the
  Good News

? Many have never heard the
Good News
? Every person without Jesus is LOST
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LOST PEOPLE are next door far away

• 1 million of the 2.7 million population in
  Arkansas are unchurched
• The number of lost in the US is growing
• The majority of the worlds population are lost
• Even worse, 1/4th have no access to the message
  of salvation in Jesus
• They dont know who Jesus is

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GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, MAKE
DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZE
THEM, AND TEACH THEM
Jesus said in Matthew 28
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BIBLICAL BASIS for the Cooperative Program

• Jesus Prayed for Unity, John 1711,20-23
• Matt. 1819 Where two or three...
• 2 Cor. 8-9Macedonia Achaia asked to join in
  meeting the needs in Jerusalem
• Ecc. 4 9-12Strength in unity

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OTHER BIBLICAL TEXTS

• Early Church as OneActs 243-47, 432 (lesson
  regarding Ananias Saphira)
• March around Jericho
• Gideons 300
• Psalms 1331 How goodfor brothers to dwell
  together in unity.
• I Cor. 39Gods fellow-workers
• Acts 11 27-30 (famine) Rom. 15 15-32 (2 Cor.
  8-9) I Cor. 16 2-6

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ARKANSAS BAPTISTS

• A People Obedient to the Scriptures?
• A People in Love with God?
• A People on Mission with God?
• A People with a Passion for the Lost?
• A People Committed to Cooperative Program
  Missions?
• I think the answer is YES!

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ARKANSAS PASTORS define the CP

• A kingdom tool for joining hands to advance
  evangelism, missions, theological education and
  ministries
• Greatest most successful effort to reach the
  world for Christ
• Scriptural plan from God enabling us to combine
  our resources to carry out the Great Commission,
  thus doing more together than any one can do
  alone.

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The Cooperative Program Defined by the SBC

• The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists
  unified plan of giving through which cooperating
  Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of
  their undesignated receipts in support of their
  respective state convention and the Southern
  Baptist Convention missions and ministries.

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Southern Baptists working together to support
missions ministries at home and around the
world.
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The Cooperative Program Described

• A witness to the lost in ones city, state,
  nation and the world.
• The only cooperative effort by any group of
  churches that is truly Acts 18 comprehensive
• From the church door to the ends of the earth.

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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

• SBC began in 1845 for the purpose of doing HOME
  and FOREIGN missions.
• Individual churches and mission societies
  supported limited missions and institutions
• The 75 million campaign of 1919 provided 5 years
  of consistent supportwithout representatives of
  missions/institutions soliciting every church
• The Cooperative Program was launched in 1925

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Passion of CP proponents is in M. E. Dodds 1925
motion

• We believe that Southern Baptists should go
  forward together year by yearuntil His name
  shall be knownto the ends of the earth.
• It is a Jesus program.
• Southern Baptists are pooling their resources for
  one purposeto advance the cause of Christ.
• We are unapologetically committed to winning
  people to Jesus Christ.
• Thats OUR REASON FOR BEING!
• Is it any wonder that they were described as
  having a fire burning in their hearts?

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Local churches give through the Cooperative
Program.

COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
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How the Cooperative Program works (member to
church)
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How the Cooperative Program works ( of Churchs
Undesignated gifts)
Arkansas Baptist State Convention
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How the Cooperative Program works
Arkansas Baptist State Convention
57.83
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION WORLD WIDE MINISTRIES
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ARKANSAS COOPERATIVE PROGRAM 2009 BUDGET

• 42.17 - World Missions/SBC (increasing
  incrementally each year over 5 years)
• 24.31 - ABSC Team Ministries
• 19.47 - Education (OBU, WBC, Pastoral
  Scholarship Fund)
• 7.39 - General Ministries (Annuity Plan,
  Historical Commission, etc.)
• 2.64 - Ark Baptist Childrens Homes
• 1.55 - Arkansas Baptist Foundation
• 1.32 - Arkansas Baptist News
• 1.15 - Arkansas Baptist Assembly

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Local Church gifts through the Cooperative
Program
Evangelize Arkansas
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The Churchs Cooperative Program Dollars
Start New Churches
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The Churchs Cooperative Program Dollars
Reach College Students and Campuses with the
Gospel.
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The Churchs Cooperative Program Dollars
Involve church members in volunteer mission
ministries.
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The Churchs Cooperative Program Dollars
Help educate ministers, missionaries and
laypersons in our colleges and seminaries.
Ouachita Baptist University
Williams Baptist College
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SOME OF THE 2008 RESULTS in Arkansas

• Evangelism683 saved from the witness of ABSC CP
  missionaries
• Arkansas Baptist Assembly6000 participants, 479
  professions of faith, 500 rededications, 40 for
  church vocations
• BCM1,459 professions of faith over 1,800
  involved in missions ministries
• Baptist Colleges (OBU Williams)2,064 students,
  569 preparing for ministry (27.57 of students)

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SOME OF THE 2008 RESULTS in Arkansas Cont.

• Church starts 24 new churches in 3 different
  languages
• Childrens ministriesprovided care for 256
  children from hopeless situations, 22 saved,
  1,372 counseling sessions for families
  individuals outside the Childrens Homes
• Southern Baptist Chaplains531 led 1,500 to
  saving faith in Christ
• Katrina Rita Relief Efforts ongoing
• Tornado response

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DISTRIBUTION of CP MISSION GIFTS thru SBC

• 50 International Mission Board
• 22.79 North American Mission Board
• 21.92 Theological Education Pastors,
  Ministers, and Missionaries
• 1.65 Christian Ethics Religious Liberty
  Ministries
• 3.64 Facilitating Ministries,
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• SBC Operating 3.32

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2008 Results that CP Gifts made possible thru the
NAMB

• 1,500 New Churches
• 5,500 missionaries Generally 1/3 career, 1/3
  short-term funded, and 1/3 Mission Service Corps
• 2,875 SBC-endorsed chaplains
• 253 pregnancy centers served 145,433 clients,
  3,434 became Christians, 4,726 babies saved from
  abortion

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2008 Results that CP gifts helped make possible
thru the IMB

• 25,497 New Churches (490
  week, 70 day)
• 609,968 baptisms
  (1,640 day, 68 hour, 1 minute)
• 100 people groups newly engaged
• 1,190 total people groups engaged

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Other IMB Fast Facts

• 5,500 Field Missionaries
• 5,913 Last Frontier Peoples
• 6.8 Billion World Population
• 1.6 Billion WITHOUT any Witness
  

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Givers and Their Church
REACH PEOPLE with the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST
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You and Your Church
ACROSS THE STREET and AROUND THE WORLD.
Through the Cooperative Program
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STRENGTHS OF THE Cooperative Program

• Unites churches of all sizes in a common,
  missional purpose
• Enables us to do more together than we could ever
  do separately
• Reflects kingdom spirit of we vs. I
• Gives stability permanency to what we do.
• Makes us a missional giant.

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STRENGTHS OF THE Cooperative Program cont.

• Demonstrates voluntary, grass-roots, ground-up
  cooperation
• Makes giving simpleevery church gives a
  percentage of undesignated gifts
• Provides security for our missionaries
• Is the heartbeat lifeblood of who we are as
  Southern Baptists

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KEYS TO THE CP

• CP undergirds facilitates the missional purpose
  of the SBC the ABSC.
• We give to missions, ministries education
  through the CP
• By giving and praying we join God in his work and
  are partners in the harvest.
• We rejoice over the resultschanged lives
• The CP is our way to be on mission with God
  24/365 (Vol. trips CP)

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CHALLENGE
PRAY, Commit to Pray Daily for Our
Missionaries Mission/Ministry Efforts
GIVE, Respond to Gods Goodness by
Giving of Self Resources
GO, Career/Short-term, Be a Volunteer on
Some Type of Mission Project
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ARKANSAS BAPTISTS

• Obedient to Gods Call and Commission to Share
  the Good News with Those at Home Beyond

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