ATLANTA — A study committee will encourage stewardship growth among the state’s Baptists while examining the percentage allocation of funds to the Georgia and Southern Baptist conventions.
The committee will examine how Georgia Baptists can impact lostness around the world without neglecting those in their own back yard, Georgia Baptist Convention executive committee members said.
Jeremy Morton, pastor of Cross Point Baptist Church, Perry, made a motion to create the study committee on behalf of himself and five Georgia Baptist pastors during the executive committee’s Dec. 14 meeting. Joining Morton were Frank Cox, pastor of North Metro First Baptist Church, Lawrenceville; Larry Wynn, pastor of Hebron Baptist Church, Dacula; Don Hattaway, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Cartersville; Ernest Easley, pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church, Marietta; and William “Bill” Harrell, pastor of Abilene Baptist Church, Martinez.
Morton said he and the pastors submitted the motion “to ensure that while we are committed to reaching the nations globally, we as Georgia Baptists remain committed to not abandoning the nations that have come to Georgia.”
Morton said the intent of the motion was to consider ways of increasing missions support to Southern Baptist mission boards “while strengthening our mission commitment to the work here in Georgia.”
“In light of dramatic change in direction by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, many in our churches have grown uneasy about their own mission giving and if it is being used most effectively,” Morton said.
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