Donations are checked when a church registers messengers for the SBC annual meeting but are not monitored otherwise. Currently, fewer than 60% of churches give to the Cooperative Program, its joint missions fund, down from about 75% in the mid-1980s.
At their regularly scheduled meeting this week, Executive Committee members approved a budget for fiscal year 2023-2024, which will be presented at the SBC meeting in June. They also learned that the Executive Committee’s assets declined by more than $2 million last year, part of an ongoing fiscal crunch. They also heard an update from the search committee looking for a new permanent Executive Committee leader.
That committee hopes to name a candidate next month. The Executive Committee has been without a permanent president since 2022 and has had a pair of interim leaders.
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, two for alleged mismanagement of sexual abuse. One other had failed to give to the SBC’s common fund, while another hired a woman pastor.){kind=link}