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CP Totals Stay Strong through March
04/23/2010
LOUISVILLE – With $13,567,762 collected through the end of March, Cooperative Program totals for the current fiscal year are now ahead of last year’s pace by 1.6 percent, or $219,053.
According to Lowell Ashby, Business Service Team leader for the KBC, Kentucky Baptists gave $2,083,872 through the Cooperative Program in March, enough to also push totals ahead of pace for the $23 million 2009-2010 working budget.
The $2,083,872 received in March was $164,520 more than the $1,919,352 needed to stay on pace for the working budget, he said. In order to stay on pace for the working budget through the remainder of the fiscal year, an average of $1,886,448 is needed each month.
At this point during the 2008-2009 fiscal year, Kentucky Baptists had given a total of $13,328,709.
According to Ashby, CP totals remain behind the original fiscal year budget of $24,480,000 by 4.99 percent, or $712,238. However, because of the challenging national economy, the KBC is operating under the approved working budget of $23 million for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, he said.
“It has been exciting to see God working this past month as Kentucky Baptists have given to CP missions and ministries even as they actively participated in gospel outreach during the ‘Find it Here’ campaign,” said Billy Compton, executive associate for Cooperative Program and resources. “This truly is an example of how we can do more together than we ever could alone.”
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Release prepared by Kristie Randolph, KBC Communications
