Ron and June Travis have been working in the trenches of Baptist life for the past forty-five years: With their own family. Team teaching and conducting seminars for adolescents, newlyweds, budgeting, and finance. Serving as a Deacon. Working on committees for Personnel, Finance, or Long-Range Planning. Serving as a leader and then Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 266 in Gardendale, Alabama. Ron is now writing about their experiences, and his career, which have been based on honor, honesty, and integrity in following the constitution, bylaws, rules, and stated intentions of each organization they have been a part of. This Book is written to share Ron's beliefs about the Cooperative Program and each individual's responsibilities as we come together to rule autonomous local Baptist churches and cooperate with other like-minded congregations to accomplish the Great Commission and the mandate found in Acts 1.