NASHVILLE — In a three-year plan toward receiving full reimbursement from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Pastors Conference for use of the SBC annual meeting facilities, the Executive Committee voted Feb. 21 to increase the reimbursement stipulation of $50,000 last year (up from $38,000 in 2010) to $100,000 for 2013, $150,000 for 2014 and a full reimbursement for all costs by 2015.
The Executive Committee also asked Executive Committee staff to “continue to document the variable cost attributed to the Pastors Conference and annually request a written financial report be provided by the Pastors Conference leadership by Aug. 10 to the Executive Committee for review during its September meeting.”
The Pastors Conference has paid a $38,000 reimbursement since the 1992 SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis while its costs have risen over the years to $201,000 last year in Phoenix, for example, and $179,000 in 2010 in Orlando, Fla. The balance has been paid from Cooperative Program funds in the SBC Operating Budget.
Bryant Wright, who serves on the Executive Committee as SBC president, voiced concern.
Wright, a former Pastors Conference president, noted that the income received by the conference was not used solely for expenses but also was distributed to missions causes (helping with the translation of the “JESUS” film into an unreached people group’s language in the Arabian Peninsula and conducting pastors conferences on two continents, encompassing about 20 countries). (TAB)
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