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First person: Celebrating $1.5 billion of giving

Randy Davis, executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, shares thoughts on the significance of celebrating 150 years of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the 100th anniversary of the SBC’s Cooperative Program.
  • December 7, 2024
  • Tennessee Baptist and Reflector
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First person: Celebrating $1.5 billion of giving

God is good, all the time. All the time … you know the rest.

It is providentially fitting in this year of celebrating 150 years of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, and on our way to next year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program, that God would slip in the number 1.5.

As in $1.5 billion.

That’s how much Tennessee Baptists have collectively given over these many decades through the Cooperative Program, the SBC’s missions mutual fund. (See related story here). That is a significant milestone, and an exclamation point to this year of celebration.

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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, and originally published by Baptist and Reflector.

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