I shared last weekend about Iowa’s decision to go to a 50-50 split in Cooperative Program giving.
I know that some of you had state Baptist conventions this week. So, tell me what happened at your state convention this year.
- Encouraging trends.
- Challenges.
- Controversial issues.
- Officers and elections.
What’s happening in your neck of the Baptist woods?
Why would any state convention vote to increase their Cooperative Program giving when stewardship is questionable based upon multimillion Cooperative Program money invested in Glorieta Conference Center given away for $1.00 by $700,000 a year SBC entity executives?
State conventions should call for an audit to expose waste before supplying more money to cooperative program. Pray for revival in the hearts of SBC entity executives who have moved toward money over mission interests!
I’m not sure where to start… 😉
Wow, Jay. That literally made me lol.
The Georgia Convention doesn’t have any controversy. What I noticed yesterday at the convention: – Declining CP revenues have dominated the conversations here for several years. The GBC likes to talk about how we are “operating at 1998 levels” these days although we still have a not inconsiderable $40 million budget. I’m not seeing any optimism that the CP will increase. Since NAMB changed their system to no longer kick back considerable sums to legacy state conventions like the GBC (at it’s peak the GBC received nearly $1 million from NAMB), there seems to be more emphasis on the separate… Read more »
Dave Miller has BFFs everywhere you go.
Who was my GA BFF? I’m intrigued.
Will it help if I confessed that my comment was sarcastic?
Well, it gives me a pretty good idea.
It wasn’t your brother, although I was there.
You should have looked William up and said hello.
William – “Churches recognize that they aren’t giving to the GBC when they promote and receive the special mission offerings for IMB and NAMB. It’s a bit odd for GBC leadership to speak of “forward[ing]” and use those sums in the context of division of funds between state and national. The GBC is the routing agent for the mission offerings.”
Perhaps you are being generous when you state it that way…”a bit odd for GBC leadership…” – I don’t know – might stronger language be appropriate?
Nah. It’s spin.
I didn’t attend our SBC of Virginia meeting just because I didn’t have time to make the trip this year, but I did follow several on twitter and watched the live feed of two conventions as well. I can give my social media impressions. North Carolina – This was an active convention as far as social media. It left the impression of a broadly united and encouraging meeting. #greaterthingsNC SBC of Virginia – I hope the meeting was more exciting than the hashtag. This one had very little social media engagement, which is not necessarily a bad thing. There were… Read more »
What exactly happened at Louisiana College?
Do you have a week and a half for me to tell you?
Google might be your friend there.
Or, you could just go to “Crescent Crier” – Jay Adkins’ site – and peruse the articles.
Start here:
https://sbcvoices.com/true-courage-and-conviction-jay-adkins-statement-regarding-louisiana-college/
https://sbcvoices.com/louisiana-baptist-college-back-in-sacs-hot-water/
In Florida, we had some discussion about the shared funds that were negotiated with the Ex Com. But the highlight was Ted Traylor’s message about the Cooperative Program. Here it is on vimeo. http://vimeo.com/111559291
Indeed Dr. Traylor’s sermon was a tremendous moment for Florida Baptists.
The entire convention and Pastor’s Conf were outstanding. James Peoples from Trinity Baptist in Keystone Heights was elected Pres. and Calvin Carr from North Gainesville as 1st VP. Great leadership right there.
FBC has been led by Dr. John Sullivan for the last 26 years, a Baptist statesman extraordinaire. The next Exec. Dir. will a crucial choice.
As well, there is still the conversation about how quickly (or not) the FBC is moving to 50/50–but that is its own thread of discussion.
I’m curious about “negotiat[ing]” shared expenses with the EC. What is meant by that and what was the outcome?
Thanks
William, I usually zone out during these kinds of discussion. So hope this is correct. But these are negotiated money (approximately 4%) that normally would have gone to the Ex Com and then back to Florida. These funds now don’t get sent in and just kept here. They are not counted towards 54/46 or 55/45 split of CP giving. This year it is approximately $1.1 million. By 2017, any funds received from any source will be counted and split 50/50 with the Exec Committee. Ther is a growing conviction that the person who follows Dr. Sullivan ought to just bite… Read more »
The reason I asked is because state conventions don’t have to negotiate this with the EC, neither do they send it to them and get it back. That was the system between state conventions and NAMB.
…unless it is something completely new to me. I’d be interested in the reporting and/or minutes of this.
I tried to access the state newpaper, but their last article was about the election of Rick Scott as Governor. Then I went to the state convention site and the last news article they had was from October 16th. There was also nothing about it on the FBC Facebook page.
So after I left they may have passed a motion that no one will tell what happened for 50 years. 🙂