DALLAS — GuideStone Financial Resources trustees have approved a recommendation to change the Southern Baptist entity’s ministry assignment to make its mutual funds available to Southern Baptist and other evangelical church members.
GuideStone representatives will make a report to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee in mid-September with the intention of presenting the recommendation to messengers at the SBC annual meeting next June in Houston.
GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins updated trustees on GuideStone’s long-range plan, GuideStone 100 during the July 30–31 meeting in San Diego.
In GuideStone’s vision statement — “GuideStone Financial Resources exists to honor the Lord by being a lifelong partner with its participants in enhancing their financial security.”
“GuideStone 100 was born out of our motivation, our message and our mandate,” Hawkins noted. “Our motivation is to honor the Lord. Our message to each of our more than 200,000 participants is that we want to be your lifelong partner. Our mandate is to enhance their financial security. Each day, we set to live out and apply that vision.”
The initiative to offer GuideStone Funds to church members, part of the earliest version of GuideStone 100, gained momentum from a motion made at the 2006 SBC annual meeting by Gary A. Smith, pastor of Fielder Road Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas. (TAB)
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