The Tennessee Baptist Convention (TBC) executive board will eliminate up to 16 full- and part-time staff positions over the next several months.
TBC Executive Director/Treasurer Randy C. Davis announced the changes during a mid-August staff meeting at the Baptist Center in Brentwood, Tenn.
The changes “are not driven by the economy,” Davis emphasized. Rather, the changes are “driven by strategy to move us forward in accomplishing a clear objective: To assist the local church in winning the lost of Tennessee to Christ.”
The reductions will free up nearly $1 million once the process is finished, Davis told the TBC’s Baptist and Reflector, noting the changes “will allow more of our resources to be pushed to the harvest fields.”
Davis stated “having the privilege and accepting the responsibility of leading the gifted and committed Tennessee Baptist team of servant missionaries is one of the clearest calls the Lord has ever placed on my life.”
Reversing a half-century-long decline in the number of people reached and baptized in Tennessee must become a reality, Davis said.
(BP)
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