October 9, 2000

IMB trustees oppose Texas proposals
___EVANSVILLE, Ind.--Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board have publicly expressed opposition to proposed funding changes by the Baptist General Convention of Texas, even though those changes do not directly impact money going to the IMB.
___During their Sept. 25-27 board meeting in Evansville, Ind., IMB trustees adopted a resolution decrying the threat of a BGCT proposal to reduce funding to the six SBC seminaries, Executive Committee and Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
___The IMB resolution, however, does not identify Texas by name.
___Trustees said they "stand together with the churches, boards, agencies and institutions of the Southern Baptist Convention in their affirmation of the Cooperative Program."
___"The Cooperative Program is being threatened by some that are attempting a unilateral breach of this historic 75-year partnership between Southern Baptist churches and the boards, agencies and institutions they have supported," the resolution says.
___"We encourage all Southern Baptists to resist any effort that would threaten to diminish the Cooperative Program and call upon the churches to maintain the historic partnership that has existed between the local congregations, state conventions and Southern Baptist Convention boards, agencies and institutions."

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