You may read the headline and automatically assume I am opposed to churches paying tribute to their ministers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Tennessee Baptist Convention messengers adopted a $35 million budget for 2022–23, approved a constitutional amendment on second reading, renewed a missions partnership with Guatemala and
James Porch, who served as executive director of the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (now Tennessee Baptist Mission Board) for 18 years (1992–2010)
State convention leaders and annual meeting messengers in at least 14 state conventions this fall — in a flurry of motions, resolutions, recommendations and announcements