A $37.5 million Cooperative Program (CP) budget recommendation for 2019 has been approved by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) trustees.

The proposed budget recommendation was approved during the State Board’s Aug. 17 meeting in Prattville. The amount is a $500,000 increase over the 2018 CP budget of $37 million and a step back toward the previous CP budgets of $40 million and more.

All CP funds flowing through Alabama’s convention office are allocated equally between the missions and ministry efforts of the state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. (continued…)

Read the full article from The Alabama Baptist newspaper – http://www.thealabamabaptist.org/2019-cp-budget-proposal-up-500000-from-current-year/