Together, we support ethics and religious liberty advocacy before Congress, the courts, and other public policy-making bodies. We raise millions for world hunger and disaster relief, without a dime going to administrative overhead. And we support the Executive Committee of the SBC, which allows accountability and coordination over all the cooperative ministry of the denomination. To whom much is given. Midwestern Seminary receives about 1.7 cents of every dollar received at the national level.
Nickels add up.
In this example, MBTS receives a nickel out of every hundred dollars that a person gives to the general budget of his local Baptist Church. They may also depend on donors for scholarship assistance and endowment funds. Midwestern covers only a fraction of this cost by tuition. By giving to the Cooperative Program, you had a part in training Danette Cundiff, a young woman who graduated from Midwestern in 1999. You are helping Bobby Albers get his Masters of Divinity degree at MBTS while he serves as youth minister in Greenwood, Missouri, and you are supporting his parents as they leave a position with the Missouri Baptist Convention and move to a foreign field this fall.