FRANKFORT, Ky. — In a historic, relationship-altering move, Kentucky Baptist Convention (KBC) messengers meeting Nov. 15–16 in Frankfort, Ky., voted overwhelmingly to approve a new ministry partnership with Georgetown College. Provisions specify that Georgetown will begin electing its own trustees beginning in 2006 and the convention will phase out Georgetown’s $1.3 million Cooperative Program allocation over the next four years. The plan also specifies that 75 percent of Georgetown’s trustees will be Kentucky Baptists, Georgetown students will remain eligible for KBC-funded scholarships and the convention and Georgetown will continue to jointly fund a campus minister position.
The action comes one year after messengers rejected a proposal to allow all four Kentucky Baptist college boards to include up to 25 percent of trustees who are not affiliated with KBC churches. That was among recent decisions that prompted Georgetown’s board to revert to its pre-1942 status of naming its own trustees.
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