The Cooperative Program

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.