By Jennifer Davis Rash
The Baptist Paper
Discussions about the investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse cases landed primarily on the topic of funding during the Feb. 21–22 EC meeting.
While the original motion passed by messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting in Nashville states the investigation is to be paid for by the EC’s Cooperative Program allocation, some confusion existed originally about what that meant.
Would the funding come off the top of all CP dollars flowing through the EC to be distributed to all funded entities or strictly from the portion of the CP funds disbursed for EC operations? And if it is the latter, how would that work when the EC’s annual operating budget is roughly $8.5 million? [Read more…]