Proposed $190 million CP allocation budget for the upcoming 2024–25 fiscal year is down $5 million from the current 2023–24 budget year. EC trustees also approve Credentials Committee’s recommendation to disaffiliate 4 churches.
“We’ve changed our process, and I’m happy to say for the first time ever this year you will know what the proposed resolutions are for the SBC Annual meeting well before we gather in Indianapolis,” said SBC president Bart Barber.
Legal Strategies Committee chair Josh Hetzler of Virginia assured EC members they are working “expeditiously” and understand the “urgency” of the matter.
The search team for the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has announced that an “excellent” candidate “is emerging.”
Rhonda Kelley, former associate director of Innovative Evangelism and adjunct professor of women’s ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, has died.
Local and federal authorities continue to investigate a shooting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston after a woman opened fire right before an afternoon service. The shooter was shot and killed and two others were wounded.
Ida Mae Hays, a retired International Mission Board missionary to Brazil, died Feb. 1.
Brother Darrell’s funeral is tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Klein Funeral Home in Magnolia, Texas. A livestream will be available.
Search team chair Neal Hughes announced the latest development Tuesday (Jan. 23) to EC members. The news of a potential candidate was announced Jan. 8 and was expected to be voted on at the EC’s upcoming meeting in Nashville (Feb. 19–20).
A recently revealed email, posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Jan. 19, spotlights an April 2021 message from former Southern Baptist Convention attorney James Guenther
