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Greenfield, Six Churches Singled Out for CP Support
11/15/2011
Dr. Paul Chitwood presents the Distinguished CP Leadership Award to Harold Greenfield.
FLORENCE – Harold Greenfield, retired director of missions for Caldwell-Lyon Baptist Association, was presented the Distinguished CP Leadership Award during the afternoon session of the Kentucky Baptist Annual Meeting today in Florence.
The award is presented to individuals who have given long-term, significant support among Kentucky Baptists for the Cooperative Program, the unified program of funding missions across Kentucky, North America and the world.
Six congregations also were singled out as top CP givers in total dollars and per capita giving, and 12 others were recognized for reaching giving milestones during the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
Much of Greenfield’s 60 years in Christian ministry has occurred in Western Kentucky. He was Caldwell-Lyon DOM for 29 years and also led Little River Baptist Association, and was interim DOM for Muhlenberg Baptist Association. On his retirement in 2000, Greenfield had preached 180 revivals and 21 mission conferences in 80 Kentucky counties, 13 other states and seven countries.
In a 20-year period, every church in the Caldwell-Lyon Baptist Association gave to missions through the Cooperative Program. From 1972 until 1999, CP giving in the association increased from 8.9 percent in undesignated receipts to 13.2 percent.
A past president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, Greenfield was a charter member of the Kentucky Fellowship of Directors of Missions, serving in each officer’s role, including president.
The three churches giving the most dollars through the Cooperative Program per capita during the 2010-2011 fiscal year were:
- Countryside Baptist Church, Morganfield: $282.35 per capita
- Mexico Baptist Church, Marion: $233.53 per capita
- Good Hope Baptist Church, Campbellsville: $223.10 per capita
The three churches giving the most in total dollars through CP in the past year were:
- Living Hope Baptist Church, Bowling Green: $423,255.28
- First Baptist Church of Owensboro: $293,159.13
- Lone Oak First Baptist Church, Paducah: $291,932.99
The churches reaching “million dollar milestones” in the last fiscal year were:
- First Baptist Church of Owensboro: $8 million
- Campbellsville Baptist Church: $5 million
- Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville: $4 million
Churches reaching the $3 million milestone were:
- Eastwood Baptist Church, Bowling Green
- First Baptist Church of Richmond
- Beaver Dam Baptist Church
Congregations reaching the $2 million milestone were:
- Sand Spring Baptist Church, Lawrenceburg
- Glasgow Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Mt. Washington
- Lancaster Baptist Church
Reaching $1 million in gifts through the CP were:
- Franklin Crossroads Baptist Church, Cecilia
- Twelve Oaks Baptist Church, Paducah
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by Dannah Prather, KBC Communications
