SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) rejected by a 2-to-1 majority a motion to drop legal action against five convention agencies.
Missouri Baptist leaders took the five agencies to court to ask a judge to resolve a dispute about whether the various trustee boards had the legal right to amend their charters without convention approval. Previously, the state convention had the power to elect the agencies’ trustees. In other business at the Oct. 28–30 annual meeting in Springfield, a divided convention also voted to release for other use money initially earmarked for the five entities but held in escrow after they changed charters so that the convention no longer had sole power to name their trustees.
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