LEESBURG, Fla. — Four priorities for the Florida Baptist Convention have been proposed by a 30-member task force, which released a report during a Sept. 23–24 state board of missions meeting in Leesburg. Moving Florida’s “Cooperative Program income distribution to a 50/50 division between state and national entities within four years” is part of one of the proposed priorities.
In addition to the proposed priorities, the task force report includes two additional recommendations: “Spiritual and Leadership Renewal” and “Reorganization and Restructuring.”
Regarding Spiritual and Leadership Renewal, the task force stated it is “convinced that genuine Great Commission resurgence is dependent upon and must begin in each individual believer and each Florida Baptist congregation. The pastor of each congregation must personally lead his congregation toward a new level of commitment to accomplishing the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18–20).”
Regarding the other, the task force did not propose specific staff changes but asked that messengers to the annual meeting “request the State Board of Missions to present a plan to reorganize and restructure our convention along the stated priorities and to adjust to the changing financial landscape over the next four to seven years.”
A final draft of the recommendations will be voted on at the Nov. 8–9 annual meeting in Brandon.
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