"Rev. Ellen Jimmerson, the first Southern Baptist minister..

[Dave Roberts]

CBF has a Church Benefits Board that offers comparable coverage to Guidestone. Also, American Baptists have MMBB that provides outside their own denominational wings.

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

IMB adjusted policy, including some budget resources, to put more into evangelism and less in social ministry (hospitals, schools, etc.). Part of this was driven by the more evangelistically-oriented con leaders and trustees and partly by a process of moving away from western-driven missions and facilities and more to indigenous control. There were enormous annual costs in real estate upkeep and staffing.

Some of this was driven by a view that moderates were less interested in ev. and church planting than in just being there and doing good things. One notable anecdote came from a mod. prof in one of the overseas seminaries who said that he had more important things to do than go into the field and do evangelism.

This is my recollection. I think mid-1990s was the time frame.

[Tim Bonney]

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

[Neil Heath]

[Dave Roberts]

[Ed Pettibone]