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“…the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) revealed [2/24] that it has lost 1,132 workers—almost twice as many as its low-end estimate.”

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Sat, 02/27/16

http://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Financial-issues-promp…

One out of five Southern Baptist missionaries overseas - or nearly 1,000 total - have volunteered to leave their posts to help the denomination’s mission board deal with its financial straits. That’s in addition to the departure of a third of the staff of the International Mission Board, also mostly through a voluntary program.

“Obviously, this number exceeds what we needed,” said its president, David Platt, at a trustee meeting this week. But he said the departure of 983 missionaries means the mission board will be in improved financial health.

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Jim's Doctrinal Statement

Sat, 02/27/16

is the system we non-SBCers are supposed to emulate?

Hoping to shed more light than heat..

Mon, 02/29/16

Notice also that in order to encourage more people to be missionaries, the SBC missions agency changed its views on speaking in tongues. I can’t help but think this reflects, to some extent, John Piper’s influence among Southern Baptists (and perhaps even Fundamentalists).

Wally Morris
Huntington, IN