Are we REALLY mission-minded people?

These stats are a couple of years old, so I’m not sure which direction (if any) they have moved to in 2007. However, it is rather disturbing to me, hopefully it is to you too!

Last year, Southern Baptist families received income totaling an estimated $300 billion and gave an average 2.5 percent of it to their churches, which allocated 93 percent of their receipts to local spending. Of the 7 percent passed along to Baptist state conventions, an average of 35 percent is sent to the Southern Baptist Convention, which allocates 50 percent of Cooperative Program receipts to international causes. The result is that, out of every $100 in Southern Baptist family income, about 8 cents is invested in overseas missions through the IMB.