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==Missions and affiliated organizations==

===Cooperative Program===
The Cooperative Program (CP) is the organization's unified funds collection and distribution program for the support of regional, national, and international ministries; contributions from affiliated congregations fund the CP.<ref name="CP1">{{cite web |title=What is the Cooperative Program? |url=http://www.cpmissions.net/2003/what%20is%20cp.asp |access-date=March 21, 2010 |publisher=Southern Baptist Convention |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225094418/http://www.cpmissions.net/2003/what%20is%20cp.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, the local congregations of the denomination reported gift receipts of $11.1 billion.<ref name="2009AR-CP">{{cite book |title=Annual of the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention | publisher = Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention |date=June 2009| pages=109–11| url = http://sbcec.org/bor/2009/2009SBCAnnual.pdf |access-date= March 21, 2010 }}</ref> From this they sent $548 million, approximately five percent, to their state Baptist conventions through the CP.<ref name="2009AR-CP" /> Of this amount, the state Baptist conventions retained $344 million for their work. State conventions sent $204 million to the national CP budget to support denomination-wide ministries.<ref name="2009AR-CP" />

===Mission agencies===
The denomination was organized in 1845 to create a mission board to support the sending of Baptist missionaries. The [[North American Mission Board]], or NAMB, (founded as the Domestic Mission Board, and later the Home Mission Board) in [[Alpharetta, Georgia]] serves missionaries involved in [[evangelism]] and [[church planting]] in the U.S. and Canada, while the [[International Mission Board]], or IMB, (originally the Foreign Mission Board) in [[Richmond, Virginia]], sponsors missionaries to the rest of the world.

Baptist Men is the mission organization for men in the convention's churches and is under the North American Mission Board.

The [[Woman's Missionary Union]], founded in 1888, is an auxiliary to the national convention, which helps facilitate two large annual missions offerings: the [[Annie Armstrong]] Easter Offering (for North American missions) and the [[Lottie Moon]] Christmas Offering (for international missions).

===Southern Baptist Disaster Relief===
[[File:FEMA - 15500 - Photograph by Mark Wolfe taken on 09-12-2005 in Mississippi.jpg|thumb|Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers prepare food in [[D'Iberville, Mississippi]], September 12, 2005]]
Among the more visible organizations within the North American Mission Board is Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. In 1967, a small group of Texas Southern Baptist volunteers helped victims of [[Hurricane Beulah]] by serving hot food cooked on small "buddy burners". In 2005, volunteers responded to 166 named disasters, prepared 17,124,738 meals, repaired 7,246 homes, and removed debris from 13,986 yards.<ref>{{Citation | title = CBADR | url = http://cbadr.net/index.cfm/pageid/NewsE68324/articleaction/view/articleid/NAMBF58765/ | access-date = 2010-03-20  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105130803/http://cbadr.net/index.cfm/pageid/NewsE68324/articleaction/view/articleid/NAMBF58765/ | archive-date = November 5, 2013 }}.</ref> Southern Baptist Disaster Relief provides many different types: food, water, child care, communication, showers, laundry, repairs, rebuilding, or other essential tangible items that contribute to the resumption of life following the crisis—and the message of the Gospel. All assistance is provided to individuals and communities free of charge. SBC DR volunteer kitchens prepare much of the food distributed by the Red Cross in major disasters.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.redcross.org/images/pdfs/Katrina_OneYearReport.pdf | publisher = Red cross | title = Katrina One Year Report | access-date = December 10, 2011  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120121200321/http://www.redcross.org/images/pdfs/Katrina_OneYearReport.pdf | archive-date = January 21, 2012 }}</ref>

===Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools===
The SBC has various primary and secondary schools affiliated with the Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools.<ref>Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools, [https://nacschools.org/directory/ MEMBER SCHOOLS DIRECTORY], nacschools.org, USA, retrieved October 22, 2022</ref>

===Universities and colleges===
{{main |List of universities and colleges affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention}}
[[File:Baylor University June 2016 63 (Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center).jpg|thumb|221x221px|Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center, [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas]], affiliated with the convention through the [[Texas Baptists]]]]
The SBC has several affiliated universities.<ref>Southern Baptist Convention, [https://www.sbc.net/resources/directories/colleges-and-universities/ Colleges and Universities], sbc.net, USA, retrieved October 22, 2022</ref>

===Seminaries===
[[File:NOBTS chapel.jpg|thumb|[[New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary]]'s chapel]]
The national convention directly supports six theological seminaries devoted to ministry preparation.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/entities/seminaries.asp | title = Southern Baptist Theological Seminaries | website = www.sbc.net | access-date = June 27, 2016 | archive-date = May 13, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160513064317/http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/entities/seminaries.asp | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Louisville, Kentucky]] (1859, originally in Greenville, South Carolina)
* [[Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Fort Worth, Texas]] (1908, originally part of Baylor University in Waco, Texas).
* [[New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]] (1916, originally New Orleans Baptist Bible Institute)
* [[Gateway Seminary]], [[Ontario, California]] (1944, initially in Oakland, California, and formerly called Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary)
* [[Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Wake Forest, North Carolina]] (1950)
* [[Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Kansas City, Missouri]] (1957)

===Other organizations===
Other notable organizations under the national convention include ''[[Baptist Press]]'', the nation's largest Christian news service, established by the convention in 1946; [[Baptist Collegiate Network]], the college-level organization operating campus and international missions typically known as the Baptist Student Union and Baptist Collegiate Ministries;<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-21 |title=Home - College Ministry |url=https://collegeministry.com/ |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=collegeministry.com |language=en-US}}</ref> GuideStone Financial Resources (formerly called the Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and founded in 1918 as the Relief Board of the Southern Baptist Convention), which provides insurance, retirement, and investment services to churches, ministers, and employees of affiliated churches and agencies (it does not limit its services to member churches and members); [[LifeWay Christian Resources]], founded as the Baptist Sunday School Board in 1891, one of the nation's largest Christian publishing houses, which previously operated the "LifeWay Christian Stores" (formerly "Baptist Book Stores") until closing physical stores in 2019; [[Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission]] (formerly known as the Christian Life Commission of the SBC), dedicated to addressing social and moral concerns and their implications on public policy issues from city hall to Congress and the courts; and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, in Nashville, Tennessee, the official depository for the denomination's archives and a research center for the study of Baptists worldwide. The SBHLA website includes digital resources.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbhla.org/|title=Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archive - Baptist history, Baptist Archives, church records, church history|website=www.sbhla.org|access-date=February 11, 2019}}</ref>