Detailed guidelines for submitting resolutions to be considered by the 2003 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) resolutions committee have been posted on the SBC Web site at www.sbc.net.
To access the guidelines, click “SBC Annual Meeting 2003, Phoenix AZ” atop the sbc.net site, then “Resolutions” on the left side of the annual meeting’s Web page titled “KingdomFirst,” then “How to submit a resolution.”
New resolutions committee procedures approved during the 2002 SBC annual meeting in St. Louis will be implemented for the June 17-18 annual meeting.
The changes to SBC Bylaw 20 for the committee procedures include:
Proposed resolutions may be submitted as early as April 15 but no later than 15 days prior to the SBC annual meeting, giving the resolutions committee a two week period in which to consider submissions.
Resolutions may no longer be submitted during the annual meeting.
Proposed resolutions must be accompanied by a letter from a church qualified to send a messenger to the SBC annual meeting certifying that the individual submitting the resolution is a member in good standing.
Proposed resolutions preferably should be submitted by e-mail or mailed to the resolution committee in care of the SBC Executive Committee.
The drafts must be typewritten, titled, dated and include complete contact information for the person and his or her church.
No person will be allowed to submit more than three resolutions per year.
If a properly submitted resolution is not forwarded by the resolutions committee to the SBC annual meeting, a two thirds vote of messengers would be required to bring the proposed resolution to the convention floor.
Mike Hamlet, pastor of First Baptist Church, North Spartansburg, S.C., and a former president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, has been named by SBC President Jack Graham as this year’s resolutions committee chairman.
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