During the business section of the SBC Executive Board report, messengers, without discussion:
– Adopted a 2010-11 SBC operating budget that anticipates $8.64 million in income, with $6.79 million through the Cooperative Program. A total of $2.98 million is budgeted for SBC administration expenses and $5.67 million is allocated toward operating expenses for the Executive Committee.
– Adopted a 2010-11 Cooperative Program allocation budget that directs $145.45 million to ministries through the convention’s two missions entities, $44.3 million to theological education through six seminaries and $3.4 million to concerns about ethics and religious liberty.
– Changed the site of the 2013 SBC annual meeting from Nashville, Tenn., to Houston, Tex., and changed the date to June 11-12 “to ensure appropriate meeting facilities to support the annual meeting.”
– Adopted the 2014-15 SBC calendar of activities.
– Amended the ministry statement of the Southern Baptist Foundation to say that the foundation will “assist churches, Baptist general bodies and their entities, and other evangelical organizations and individuals through estate planning consultation and investment management primarily for funds providing support for Southern Baptist causes.”
– Approved resolutions of appreciation for Morris Chapman, president of the Executive Committee, who will retire Sept. 30 after 18 years in the position; and for Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, who will retire this year after 17 years in the role.
The day before, Executive Committee members elected officers for the coming year. Roger Spradlin, pastor of Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, Calif., was elected chairman in a ballot vote with Doug Melton, pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. A vote for vice chairman first ended in a tie between Ernest Easley, pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., and Jack Shaw, a layman from Greenville, S.C., but in a second vote, Easley was named to the position.
Joe Wright, director of missions for the Dyer Baptist Association in Tennessee, was elected secretary of the Executive Committee. Also nominated was Carol Yarber, an office manager from Athens, Tex. – BP