THE MISSIONS INVESTMENT OF SOUTHERN BAPTISTS IN THE US & CANADA COMPARED WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD ON A PER CAPITA BASIS

IMPORTANT BASE-LINE DATA
Total Cooperative Program Allocation Budget for FY 2009 = $205,716,834 (1)
NAMB = $46,882,866 or 22.79 percent of the CP Allocation Budget
IMB = $102,858,417 or 50 percent of the CP Allocation Budget

US & CANADA DOLLARS/PERSON ANALYSIS (NAMB + STATE EXPENDITURES)

Money being spent Source
$ 365,718,816 CP receipts (estimated) retained by state conventions
$ 46,882,866 NAMB funds from CP Allocation Budget
$ 58,100,000 NAMB funds from Annie Armstrong in 2008 (2)
$ 470,701,682 Grand Total of Mission Funds US & Canada

Population in Territories Served
340,648,000 Number of people in U.S., US Territories, & Canada (3)

$ 1.382 Mission dollars spent per person in US & Canada

WORLD MISSION DOLLARS/PERSON ANALYSIS (IMB EXPENDITURES)
Money being spent Source
$ 102,858,417 IMB funds from CP Allocation Budget
$ 141,000,000 IMB funds from Lottie Moon (4)
$ 243,858,417 Grand Total

Population in Territories Served
6,431,152,000 World population less US & Canada (5)

$ 0.038 Mission dollars spent per person in the world


Conclusion: We say we care about the nations, but we could be rightly accused of only caring about ourselves. We spend, on average, 36.4 times more money to reach someone living in the US and Canada than we do someone living anywhere else in the world.

1 This represents, on average, about 36 percent of all CP receipts according to One Sacred Effort;the remainder, approximately $365,718,816, is retained by state conventions. This figure is derived by assuming the CP Allocation Budget equals .36 of all CP receipts and then determining what all CP giving would be on that basis and then subtracting the CP allocation budget from the estimate
of all CP receipts to determine approximately how much is retained in the states.
2 http://www.anniearmstrong.com/site/pp.asp?c=8oILLTOqGnF&b=310535
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
4 http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=30616
5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population