Celebrating Cooperative Missions

In this final episode, BRN Executive Director Dr. Barry Whitworth shares his diverse journey with the Cooperative Program and how the CP supports the Kingdom work churches are doing here in Pennsylvania/South Jersey.

He also shares the importance of generosity in the life of a Christ follower and previews an all new podcast coming this spring/summer!

In this month’s episode, Jess Jennings, International Mission Board (IMB) missionary and founder of Nehemiah Teams, shares how the Cooperative Program has impacted his life and the lives of those he and his wife are ministering to in the Philippines. 

In this month’s episode, John Cope, Send Network director of Pennsylvania/South Jersey and overseer of Keystone Church, shares how the Cooperative Program has continually impacted him, his family and his ministry at nearly every stage of his life. 

In this month’s episode, Jason Hunter, vice president of the BRN Executive Board and senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Clarion, shares how the Cooperative Program has been an impactful form of collaboration in his life and ministry – and how it reminds him a little bit of his days at Clemson University! 
 

In this month’s episode, BRN Ethnic Church Health Consultant Noelson Chery shares the importance of nations cooperating to reach the nations through missional efforts supported by the Cooperative Program. 

In this month’s episode, Pastor Ryan Day of Wrightsdale Baptist Church (the oldest Southern Baptist Church in Pennsylvania) chats about Wrightsdale’s longstanding relationship with the Cooperative Program and the benefits the CP offers to not only local missions, but also gospel efforts across the nation and globe.  

In this month’s episode, Pastor Brennan Coughlin of Fellowship CrossPoint Church in Chesterfield, New Jersey, highlights the perks of the Cooperative Program at the seminary level, through church-based internships and in reaching a community for the sake of the gospel.  

In this month's episode, Rev. Darius Nable, senior pastor of The Church of the Good Shepherd in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, shares how the Cooperative Program has contributed to the growing of their beautifully diverse church body and community.

In this episode, we head to the City of Brotherly Love to chat with Dr. Brian King, who is not only the Senior Pastor at Ezekiel Baptist Church in Philadelphia, but also the Baptist Resource Network’s (BRN) Executive Board President. Dr. King has pastored at Ezekiel for 30 years. Throughout those 30 years, he has witnessed the Cooperative Program play a large role in bringing churches together for the sake of the gospel - a journey he is sharing with us!

In this month's episode, Pastor John Toone, senior pastor at East Shore Baptist Church in Harrisburg, Pa., explains how the Cooperative Program has been a constant support in his life, ministry, and the lives of his family members.

In this second episode of Celebrating Cooperative Missions, Pastor Chuck Fricker of Harvest House Community Fellowship shares how the Cooperative Program has impacted him personally and has helped revitalize Harvest House.

In this first episode of Celebrating Cooperative Missions, we head to the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania to chat with Pastor Joe Velarde, who – through the support of cooperative giving – was able to plant Riverbend Community Church back in 2009.