Alabama Cooperative Program Budget:
SBOM Ministries: 65.17%
Includes Evangelism, Leadership, Missions Mobilization & Support, and Guidestone
State Convention Entity Ministries: 34.83%
Includes: University of Mobile, Alabama Baptist Children’s Home & Family Ministries, Shocco Springs, The Alabama Baptist, The Baptist Foundation, and more.
Auxiliaries & Other Ministries: 3.52%
Includes: Alabama Women’s Missionary Union (WMU) and Alabama Citizens Action Program (ALCAP)
2025 Budget Overview:
Actual 2025 Percentages:
- SBC Mission and Ministries 50%
- Alabama Baptist Missions and Ministries 50%
Your church’s gifts through the Cooperative Program are distributed according to this formula as approved by the messengers at the Alabama Baptist Convention.
For a detailed accounting of where your church’s 2025 gifts were put to work, email Beth Edfeldt at [email protected].
2025 Gifts were distributed as follows:
- Cooperative Program (CP) allocation 50% to the **Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM): $19,954,130
- Cooperative Program (CP) allocation 50% to the **Southern Baptist Convention (SBC): $19,954,130
Snapshot of Giving from Alabama Baptists in 2025
- Cooperative Program Receipts: $39,908,260
- Myers-Mallory Receipts: $1,758,611
- Total Receipts: $67,040,804 (CP giving + Designated Offerings)
- Total gifts to ALSBOM: $21,721,708 (CP giving + Myers-Mallory + Other Designated Offerings)
- Total gifts to IMB: $24,137,799 (CP giving + Lottie Moon and other Designated Offerings)
- Total gifts to NAMB: $11,204,681 (CP giving + Annie Armstrong and other Designated Offerings)
Cooperative Program Giving Highlights:
We are grateful to God for the continued faithfulness of Alabama Baptists in their missions giving. For nearly two decades, Alabama has led the SBC in giving through the Cooperative Program, and for the past century has been the pace-setting State Convention for missions giving through CP, totaling over $1.45 billion to support missions and ministry in fulfillment of the Great Commission. TO GOD BE THE GLORY; GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!
As in years past, the amount of CP money given was divided equally (50/50) between the SBC and the Alabama Baptist Convention. We have continued to hold to the idea that we have one mission – the Great Commission, one program – the Cooperative Program, and many ministries – Great Commission Ministries. This strategy is evident in our giving numbers, which reveals our passion for supporting missions globally and locally.
Category
Annie Armstrong
Lottie Moon
IMB Designated
NAMB Designated
Portion of CP
Total
SBC Total
$6,589,135
$12,561,580
$519,636
$68,001
$19,954,130
$39,692,482
IMB
BLANK
$12,561,580
$519,636
BLANK
$11,056,583
$24,137,799
NAMB
$6,589,135
BLANK
BLANK
$68,001
$4,547,546
$11,204,682
Alabama Baptist churches gave a total of $67,040,804 through the State Board of Missions (SBOM) in 2025. Of that amount, $39,908,260 was forwarded to the SBC, which represents the SBC’s portion of the Cooperative Program (50% of receipts) plus designated gifts. The IMB received over $23 million in missions giving, and NAMB received over $11 million! Each of these numbers represents a significant increase from the previous year! Glory to God!
Once again, Alabama Baptists have set the pace in the SBC for missions giving, as we led all state conventions in CP giving.
THANK YOU, ALABAMA BAPTISTS!
For 2026, the CP percentage being forwarded from Alabama to the SBC will continue to be a true 50/50 split of our $37,500,000 budget for the year.
While we are not the largest state convention in terms of the number of people, Alabama Baptists have continued to make missions giving a priority. We pray for God’s continued blessings on the Kingdom work being done throughout Alabama and the world through our cooperation and partnerships with Alabama Baptists and the greater Southern Baptist Convention.