Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
Monday, May 21, 2012
Alabama Baptist Convention State Board of Mission Great Commission Ministries

Cooperative Program & Stewardship Development

Stewardship is...   Everything we do...with time, talents and treasure.
Materials for Cooperative Program and Stewardship Development
 
 

The 2011 Edition of

Church Legal Issues

and it is free to all Alabama Baptist Churches!
Planned Giving

The integration of personal, financial, and estate planning goals with a person’s goals for lifetime or testamentary charitable giving.  Estate giving is an opportunity for charitable giving in circumstances that may not otherwise allow a donor to make a gift to charity. For information, click here.

The Cooperative Program

Videos

Missionary Moments - Alabama Missions

Missionary Moments - North American Missions

Missionary Moments - International Missions
Each of these vignettes is two minutes or less in length and features the ministry of international and North American missionaries. Your participation in Cooperative Program (CP) empowers these efforts in your state, across the nation, and around the world. These vignettes are suitable for use in a variety of ways including: during Sunday morning or Sunday evening worship; as part of your announcements or prayer time; during the offering; as part of your Wednesday prayer service; as part of a missions study; as a sermon illustration; as part of a new members’ class; as part of a video loop that runs in the foyer or other areas of your church; during small group studies.

Special Events for Churches

  • Great Commission Renewal 
    Bible Study and Missions Sermon
  • Great Challenge Banquet
  • Cooperative Program Fall Emphasis 
Special Events for Associations
  • Great Commission Church Awards Dinner--Association-Wide Celebration
  • Cooperative Program Representatives (CPR) A Life Support System for Missions
  • Cooperative Program Fall Emphasis 

How Your Cooperative Program Dollar is Distributed

Rounded to the nearest whole penny:

Missions Support Resources  
  • Bible Centered Stewardship Emphasis Guides:
    • Look How Far Your Giving Goes
    • Witnessing and Ministering Through the Cooperative Program
    • A Cooperative Program Cram Course
    • Telling My World About Jesus
    • Sunday School Lessons
    • Stewardship Development for Churches 
  • Encouraging the Heart: An emphasis on stewardship and missions giving
  • Tithing Counts a tithing commitment emphasis
  • The Great Challenge 
    An emphasis on stewardship and missions giving
  • New Century Giving 
    An emphasis on stewardship and missions giving

Stewardship Development

Special Events for Churches 
  • Great Commission Renewal Bible Study and Missions Sermon
  • Cooperative Program Representatives (CPR) A Life Support System for Missions
  • Cooperative Program Fall Emphasis 
Support Resources 
Training for Stewardship Leaders  "The Church Stewardship Committee" 
  • "Church Budget Development Workbook"
Personal Money Management  One Sunday Church-Wide Seminar: "Successful Christian Financial Management"
  • "Christian Money Management Workshops" (Five Steps to Successful Money Management)
  • "The Financially Confident Woman" (Book, Workbook & Audio Tapes)
  • Resource and Thematic Materials
Challenge to Build
  • An Alabama Baptist capital funds process producing spiritual and financial growth.
  • Foundations: prayer, sacrifice, testimony.
  • Focus: professional-level ministry consultants (not profit).
Meet Your Missionary

Jim Swedenburg - Director of the Office of Cooperative Program & Stewardship Development - ext. 283, jswedenburg@alsbom.org - View Bio

 

 

 

 

Missions Support


To Order Cooperative Program and Stewardship Materials you may call or email Melanie or you may click here.