Sharing Life through the
Annual Report 2006
Thanks to the Cooperative Program, the Church and Family
Equipping Team provides training, resources and personalized
assistance to over 1,700 Oklahoma Baptist Churches.
PowerUP
More than 500 churches and 3,000
leaders have participated in the
PowerUP
Your Sunday School
strategy, the most
comprehensive Sunday School growth
strategy ever developed by the BGCO.
PowerUP Your Sunday School
uses
evangelistic prayer, Sunday School
enrollment, new classes and leadership
development to reach the lost.
Student Education
More than 6,000 students and youth
leaders participated in interactive
Sumphero experiences at Falls Creek this
summer. Sumphero is a new, innovative
and interactive discipleship program
that focuses on eight ongoing spiritual
disciplines: evangelism, ministry, scripture
memory, Bible study, meditation, fasting,
worship and prayer.
Preschool and Children’s Ministry
More than 800 preschool and children’s
leaders from Oklahoma and fve other
states gathered for the Heart of the
Child Convention in Broken Arrow,
where more than 100 conferences were
conducted by 43 conference leaders. Dr.
Charles Lowery challenged leaders to
take the biblical mandate to reach and
teach young children seriously. The
event concluded with an inspirational
commissioning service led by BGCO
Executive Director - Treasurer
Anthony L. Jordan.
Robert Haskins School of Leadership
The Robert Haskins School of
Leadership has trained over 630 ethnic
leaders in 38 centers. The school has
also partnered with Golden Gate Baptist
Theological Seminary to open three
ethnic leader learning centers this year.
Church and Family Equipping
Leading others, making disciples and
growing in faith.
Thanks to the Cooperative Program, hundreds of trained
Oklahoma Baptist volunteers responded to more than 70 disasters
and have prepared more than 2 million meals since 1973.
Disaster Relief
The total number of trained volunteers
exceeded more than 2,500 in 2006. Many
of these volunteers responded to six major
disasters worldwide.
Hurricanes
Seventy individuals prepared and
served hot meals in New Orleans during
January in a continued effort to minister
to hurricane victims.
Ninety-six “mud-out” volunteers cleared
more than 120 homes damaged by water
and 95 college students worked tirelessly
during Spring Break helping cleanup
efforts. The water purifcation team, a new
addition to the ministry, provided water
for the entire community of Port Sulphur,
La., for two months this summer.
Tsunami
In January and April, 27 volunteers
returned to Thailand to help the hurting
Indonesians following the 2005 Tsunami.
Tornados
Forty team members provided 6,000
hot meals in Delaware County following a
March tornado.
Fires
Fifty families who lost homes and
possessions to wild fres were given $500
each in fnancial aid. Wetumka, First,
which was destroyed by fre, was also
assisted with fnancial aid and cleanup
efforts.
Storms
A chainsaw team removed debris for
three consecutive days in Tulsa following a
June storm.
Earthquakes
A team of four medical professionals
worked at the Baptist Seminary in Beirut,
Lebanon, giving medical aid to refugees.
Disaster Relief
Responding to the call and
meeting needs.
Thanks to the Cooperative Program,
Oklahoma Baptists are reaching the
uttermost parts of the world.
Partnership Missions
Armenia
Thanks to Oklahoma Baptists giving
through the Cooperative Program, nearly
100 children attended a camp in Armenia
where 50 children made professions
of faith. In addition, a new Christian
Student Club was started at a college
in Armenia. As a result of Oklahoma
missions teams, 80 people made
professions of faith.
Bangladesh
During the summer, an Oklahoma
vision team visited Bangladesh. The
team attended worship in house churches,
distributed Gospel of John tracts, prayer
walked and witnessed. God led the team
to recommend that the BGCO form a
partnership with Bangladesh, which was
ultimately approved by BGCO Board of
Directors.
Guanajuato, Mexico
The Baptist General Convention of
Oklahoma has extended its partnership in
Central Mexico in Guanajuato through
2007. In 2006, 20 volunteer teams have
ministered in Guanajuato distributing an
estimated 16,243 packets containing the
Gospel of John, an evangelistic tract and a
Bible study invitation. The teams started
33 Bible study groups and witnessed 175
people make professions of faith.
Guerrero, Mexico
Currently, there are approximately
40 churches in the state of Guerrero,
Mexico. The BGCO is partnering with
the Guerrero Baptist Convention to plant
77 new churches throughout the state
of Guerrero. The BGCO sponsored a
church planting conference where 70
participants were taught how to use the
Gospel of John and Good News for You to
start new churches.
Chicago Area
Oklahoma associations including
Pottawatomie-Lincoln Association and
Washington-Osage Association, along
with many churches, are partnering with
churches in various locations within the
Chicago area.
Through the Cooperative Program, Oklahoma Baptists
are sharing the life of Christ from Jerusalem to Judea to
Samaria to the uttermost parts of the world.
Acts 1:8 Oklahoma Baptist churches are
sharing life through the Cooperative Program.
Cooperative Program
One:
Each Southern Baptist gives tithes and offerings to the Lord through
their local church.
Two:
Each church sets a percentage of their budget to invest in Cooperative
Program missions and ministry causes. Their Cooperative Program
monies are sent to the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
Three:
Every Friday the BGCO forwards 40 percent of the Cooperative
Program contributions received to the Southern Baptist Convention
while 60 percent is used to fund missions and ministries within
Oklahoma.
Four:
The Southern Baptist Convention forwards monies received to the
International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board,
six seminaries and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for
missions work in America and around the world.
From your local church to the ends of the earth, Cooperative
Program gifts allow more than 5,000 International Mission Board
missionaries, more than 5,000 North American Mission Board
missionaries and more than 100 Oklahoma state missionaries to
share the life-changing message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thanks to the Cooperative Program, the Church Outreach
Team ministries assist Oklahoma Baptist churches in reaching
the lost through evangelism, training and church planting.
Chaplaincy
Twenty-three different chaplaincy
ministries and 356 chaplains are reaching
Oklahomans. Nearly 200 trained
Disaster Relief Chaplains, including 61
endorsed by the North American Mission
Board, stand ready to respond to a disaster
anywhere in the world. Hunger funds
through the Oklahoma Chaplaincy
Ministry have provided more than
$162,000 to support Oklahoma churches.
Women’s Missions and Ministries
More than 750 women attended the
State Evangelism Conference Women’s
Emphasis where the women made
commitments to evangelism and were
challenged to share their testimony on
www.mostimportantthing.org.
More than 1,300 women attended
the Oklahoma Ladies’ Retreat featuring
emcee and local TV personality Robin
Marsh. The altar at Falls Creek was full
of women committing to live a life of
forgiveness with many making professions
of faith.
Camp Nunny Cha-ha had a total of 910
campers with 31 making professions of
faith, 16 rededications and 15 being called
into full-time mission service.
Church Planting
A total of 63 new churches were planted
last year. Twenty-four new churches were
the result of three successful Kingdom
Builder Vision Bus Tours designed to
encourage local churches to become active
partners in church planting.
Men’s Ministries and Missions
In the spring, 886 men attended the
Facing the Storm Men’s Retreat. There
were 834 campers who attended the
Christian Adventure Camp at Camp
Hudgens with 60 campers making
decisions for Christ, including 41
professions of faith. More than 1,170
attended the RA Congress in March.
Evangelism & Missions
Everyone can reach people by sharing their
story.
Thanks to the Cooperative Program, Falls Creek
youth camps had record-breaking salvations
with 2,090 professions of faith.
In 2006, Falls Creek youth camps had
record-breaking salvations with 2,090
professions of faith. More than 800
churches and 44,000 people registered
during the seven weeks of youth camp
with a total of 5,243 public decisions
including 520 individuals called to
ministry.
Falls Creek youth camps helped
every person develop the basic spiritual
disciplines needed to grow in their
relationship with Christ, worship, Bible
study, connection with a local church and
life mission.
Youth Evangelism Conference
Nearly 10,500 people from 540
churches attended the 2006 YEC where
students were challenged to share their
faith. A total of 243 public decisions were
made including 44 salvations. More than
60 churches participated in Mission YEC
distributing door hangers for new church
starts in the metro area with more than
1,100 people participating in advance
conference training sessions.
Christian Family Day
Nearly 3,500 individuals participated
as the BGCO hosted Christian Family
Day at Frontier City where 400 adults
participated in a training conference for
adult youth leaders.
GO Students
Nearly 200 students and sponsors
worked as missionaries in Cologne,
Germany, during the summer of 2006,
which was the largest number of student
missionaries in the history of the GO
Students program.
Pocket Bibles
New Testaments with Psalms Pocket
Bibles were sold and promoted at Falls
Creek, YEC and throughout 2006. The
Bibles have an explanation of what a Bible
is along with Roman Road verses, One
Verse Evangelism presentation (Romans
6:23) and the sinner’s prayer. The Pocket
Bible has the www.code2life.com icon
and also has the plan for the FAITH
presentation. In 2006, there was a goal of
50,000 Pocket Bibles to be distributed to
students across Oklahoma.
Falls Creek Youth Program
Changing lives and impacting
the next generation.
Thanks to the Cooperative Program, the Messenger Network
seeks to inform and inspire Oklahoma Baptists
in print, on the air or anywhere.
The
Baptist Messenger
has evolved into
the “Messenger Network,” which includes
the weekly newsjournal, an innovative
Web site and a weekly radio broadcast
seeking to inform and inspire Oklahoma
Baptists in print, on the air or anywhere.
The
Baptist Messenger
remains the
third largest weekly news publication in
Oklahoma and hit the airwaves in 2006
with a weekly radio program designed to
inform Oklahoma Baptists on news and
issues throughout our state, nation and
world.
One of the primary roles of the
BGCO Communications Team is to
communicate the impact Oklahoma
Baptists are having through the
Cooperative Program as they reach the
world for Christ.
In 2006, the Communications Team
held more than 100 media interviews
representing Oklahoma Baptists on
numerous critical matters including social,
political and moral issues impacting the
state.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty
Committee hosted the largest Rose Day
at the State Capitol with more than
600 people participating, resulting in a
successful year for pro-life legislation.
Hundreds of churches took
advantage of the newly designed
2006 Edna McMillan State Missions
Offering materials produced by the
Communications Team. Materials include
inspiring videos on DVD, an interactive
CD-ROM and printed materials to
inform Oklahoma Baptists about the
30 ministries supported. The Team
received two awards from the Baptist
Communicator Association for the 2005
SMO material and the Cooperative
Program Imagine video.
More than 500 churches are utilizing
the cost-saving beneft of the BGCO’s
printing services for materials including
brochures, newsletters, stationery and
bulletin inserts.
A new interactive BGCO Web site,
www.bgco.org, was launched in 2006 as
an online resource for pastors, staff and
church leaders.
Communications & Baptist Messenger
The Messenger brings the good news to
80,000 people.
BGCO Teams & Affiliates
BGCO Affiliates: $4,212,109
International Mission Board
— Over 5,050 Missionaries
North American Mission Board
— Over 5,100 Missionaries
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
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Six Seminaries Training Over 15,000 leaders
— New Orleans
— Southern
— Midwestern
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BGCO/SBC Shared Stewardship/Cooperative Program Education: $235,000
*Percentages are after 1% for shared Stewardship/Cooperative Program Education.
2007 CP Missions and Ministries Plan
60%*
$13,912,000
SBC Missions & Ministries
40%*
$9,353,000
BGCO Missions and Ministries: $9,699,891
Prayer & Spiritual Awakening
Evangelism
Personal Evangelism Training for Churches
Evangelistic Campus Clubs
Media Web Evangelism
Church Media Outreach Strategy
See You At The Pole Student Rallies
Baptist Collegiate Ministries
On 39 campuses across Oklahoma
with 42 BCM Directors
Community Ministries
Chaplaincy Training and Coordination
Church Planting Training and Support
Men’s and Women’s Missions & Ministries
Disaster Relief Training and Coordination
Men’s Leadership Training
Women’s Missionary Union
Women’s Leadership Training
Camp and Conference Centers
Falls Creek
Camp Nunny Cha-ha
Camp Hudgens
Worship & Music
Worship Leadership Training
Singing Churchmen, ChurchWomen and
Oklahoma Baptist Symphony
Children’s & Preschool
Vacation Bible School Training
Children’s Leadership Training
Preschool Leadership Training
Family Ministries
Think Family Initiative
Family
Financial Peace
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Partnership Missions
Sunday School/Discipleship Leader Training
Sunday School Growth Training
FAITH Sunday School Outreach Training
Student Ministry Training
Moral Compass Parent Training
Youth Pastor Training
Youth Leadership Training
Leadership Development
Church Strategic Planning
Staff Development and Training
Demographic Analysis for Churches
Robert Haskins School of Leadership
Ethnic Church Leader Education
Associational Relationships
Associational CP Education
Communications
Public Affairs and Media Relations
Cooperative Program Education
Stewardship Education
Web Resources and Services
Church Printing Services
Ethics & Religious Liberty Committee
Baptist Messenger
Financial Services
Church Retirement Plan Benefts
Insurance Services
Church Leader Tax Seminars
Research and Databases (ACP, SBDS,
Church Staff Compensation, etc.)
Facilities Management & Support
Historical Commission
Technology & Network Services
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Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children
Oklahoma Baptist University
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Baptist Village Retitement Communities
The Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma
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— Golden Gate
— Southeastern
2007 Cooperative Program
TOTAL
Missions and Ministries Plan: $23,500,000
