DALLAS — The Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) has established a transition fund to help missionaries who will lose or relinquish their ministries rather than affirm a new “instrument of doctrinal accountability” required by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board.
The fund is the centerpiece of the BGCT’s five-part response to the mission board’s requirement that its missionaries affirm in writing the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message statement. The fund will help the missionaries with such immediate needs as housing, food, schooling and grief counseling.
The BGCT Executive Board approved the package of responses with one dissenting vote Feb. 26 in Dallas. Then the fund received an immediate boost. Eleven prominent Texas Baptists stood to say they and seven colleagues already have committed $1 million to the fund, challenging others and churches to respond in kind.
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