Ohio Baptist Messenger

January 2025 | 3

Rise in SCBO Cooperative Program Giving Impacts Ohio and Beyond Thank you, Ohio Baptists!

Students from cooperating churches in Ohio who at- tend one of our six seminaries have half of their tuition covered by Cooperative Program funding. We are thankful for the churches that give faithfully and sacrificially through the Cooperative Program to help us reach our neighborhoods in Ohio and the nations around the world for Christ. We appreciate all who openly pro- mote, support and commit to the Cooperative Program among our family of churches, associations, and min- istry partners. May Ohio Baptists commit ourselves to the celebra- tion and promotion of the Cooperative Program within our churches, associations, and entities in its one-hun- dredth year. Thank you for helping us invite churches to rediscover gospel multiplication due to your giving through the Co- operative Program.

Cooperative Program giving is on the rise at SCBO and the impact is not only felt locally here in the Buckeye State but also nationally through the North American Mission Board and our six seminaries, and globally through the International Mission Board. Since 1925, the Cooperative Program has provided a comprehensive funding mechanism for like-minded Baptist churches to support missions around the world, all the time, at the same time. It was in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, that the Cooperative Program was officially adopted as our primary funding mechanism for missions and evange- lism. In May, the Cooperative Program will celebrate 100 years of cooperative efforts among Southern Bap - tists. Since SCBO began in 1954, Ohio Baptists have con- tributed over $188,000,000 through the Cooperative Program to fund missionaries, disaster relief efforts, church planting, church revitalization, chaplaincies, evangelistic initiatives, discipleship strategies, pastor care, Christian education, Baptist communications, compassion ministries, and more. The Cooperative Program has enabled us to see over eighty churches planted and replanted and a ninety-six percent increase in baptisms over the past three years! Nearly eighty missionaries serving overseas with the International Mission Board are from Ohio and your Co- operative Program dollars are sustaining them on the mission field.

Moving forward,

Dr. Jeremy Westbrook Executive Director-Treasurer, SCBO

New Career Opportunity at SCBO Executive Director, Ohio Baptist Foundation The Ohio Baptist Foundation is officially accepting resumes for the position of Executive Director. This is initially a new part-time position. Please visit www.scbo.org/obf to learn more and view a job description. If you are prayerfully inter- ested, please send your resume to our Ohio Baptist Foun- dation Interim Executive Director, Dr. Jeremy Westbrook at jwestbrook@scbo.org.

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