Reaching more via CP Missions

By Karen L. Willoughby | Mon, 1 Aug 2005

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (BP)--As a pastor and former missionary, Calvin Wittman wonders how many more people could be reached if churches expanded their participation in Cooperative Program (CP) Missions.

"A pastor has to ask, what could we do in impacting the lostness in our world if every person would get involved in the Cooperative Program? How many more people could be reached?” Wittman, pastor of Applewood Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge, Colo., said.

"What could we do if every church cooperated the way they want their members to cooperate?" Wittman continued. "If we're not as a church giving at least 10 percent to the Cooperative Program, how can we ask our members to tithe?

"I know there are other ways of doing missions, but there is no better way than the Cooperative Program. I'm talking to you as a former missionary," said Wittman, Applewood’s pastor since 1999 and an IMB career missionary in Spain before that. "The Cooperative Program is the most effective way to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's why we're involved with it. We're a missions-minded church."

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