The SBC and the CP

I just want to say thank you to Bob Terry (editor of The Alabama Baptist) and Rick Lance (executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions), who have faithfully defended Southern Baptists’ stand on the Cooperative Program issue over the last few months. We appreciate people who will take a stand in defense of something that has worked all these years.

In my opinion, no one should accept the role of president of the Southern Baptist Convention if he or she does not support the program. No one should come in and cause dissension trying to change what is working. I pray that in the future when electing a president, this will be taken into consideration.

The church my family and I attend gives 18 percent to the Cooperative Program. We are not trying to be well known as an individual church but believe the entire convention should be behind these efforts.

Wanda Woodruff
Hartselle, Ala.