The Baptist General Convention of Texas has realigned the Center for Cultural Engagement as part of its GC2 Strong strategy to better equip churches for Great Commandment and Great Commission faithfulness.
The changes, effective Feb. 1, redistributed the center’s ministries across the organization to provide churches with more direct access to resources for church, minister and missions support.
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As part of the realignment, affinity ministries, chaplaincy relations and the Christian Life Commission will now operate within separate teams to allow for greater focus and clearer alignment with Texas Baptists’ GC2 Strong priorities.
Affinity ministries — which serve and support cultural churches across BGCT — will now be housed within the Relational Development/GC2 team.
These ministries include African American Ministries, Texas Baptists en Español, Intercultural Ministries and Western Heritage. Together, affinity ministries represent nearly 48% of Texas Baptists churches.
“This move is taking place because we want to make sure that our GC2 Strong strategy is contextualized for all of our affinity groups through the Relational Development Team,” said Julio Guarneri, executive director of BGCT.
“We want our cultural groups to be involved at every level of ministry across Texas Baptists,” he stated.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Kendall Lyons and originally published by Baptist Standard.
