RENO, Nev. — Nevada Southern Baptists will vote in mid-October on a proposal to merge their state convention and four associations into one entity and increase their Cooperative Program (CP) missions giving by two-thirds over the next five years.
The chairman of the task force bringing that recommendation said it is a “out of the box” response to “stark choices” facing the state’s 179 churches and mission congregations.
The Nevada Baptist Convention’s executive board voted unanimously Sept. 21 to send the plan to messengers at the Oct. 19–20 annual meeting in Reno, said Hoyt Savage, pastor of Foothills Baptist Church, Las Vegas, and chairman of the 14-member task force.
The document notes that CP missions receipts in Nevada have dropped by more than 20 percent over the past three years. It also acknowledges that 91 percent of the state convention’s financial resources come from the North American Mission Board (NAMB). The Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report, adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in June, calls for existing funding agreements between NAMB and state conventions to be phased out and renegotiated.
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