Hendersonville, N.C. — Directors of the North Carolina Baptist Retirement Homes are seeking to “adjust certain aspects of their relationship” with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina “while reaffirming other traditional ties.”
The move comes after a convention nominating committee chose not to approve several nominees requested by a number of the agencies the convention supports for slots on their boards of directors.
Retirement homes President Bill Stillerman met with the convention’s executive committee Aug. 16 and asked for approval of a proposal by which convention funding to the homes would be phased out over four years. Under the agreement, the organization would begin appointing its own board members during the same period.
Though direct, budgeted funding from the convention would cease after four years, the homes would continue to relate to the convention in a voluntary way, make annual reports to convention messengers and promote the annual “North Carolina Offering for Older Adults” in local churches.
The executive committee approved the proposal with a strongly affirmative voice vote. A few of the 21 members present voted against it.
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