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EC votes to create department dedicated to ongoing sexual abuse response

NEW By Scott Barkley, posted September 17, 2024

NASHVILLE (BP) — Trustees for the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee approved Tuesday (Sept. 17) a recommendation to create a department within the EC to assist churches in the area of sexual abuse prevention and response.

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WRAP-UP: SBC EC takes up dozens of referrals, including abuse prevention, financial challenges

Carolyn Fountain, chair of the Executive Committee's Committee on Events and Strategic Planning, presents her report to the EC Sept. 17, 2024 in Nashville. Photo by Brandon Porter.

By BP Staff, posted September 17, 2024 in Executive Committee

NASHVILLE (BP) – Dozens of agenda items awaited discussion and action by SBC Executive Committee members at their fall meeting this week. The committee made short work of its many referrals and recommendations, including consequential ones like finding a new home for sexual abuse prevention in the SBC and releasing a total dollar amount for legal expenditures incurred by the EC since 2021.

SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg speaks during a finance presentation to the EC Sept. 17, 2024 in Nashville. EC finance committee chair Adam Wyatt, EC Chairman Philip Robertson and EC CFO Mike Bianchi joined Iorg for the presentation. Photo by Brandon Porter

By Brandon Porter, Laura Erlanson, posted September 17, 2024 in Executive Committee, Sexual Abuse

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Executive Committee says it has spent more than $12.1 million on the 2021-2022 Guidepost Solutions investigation and subsequent legal expenses dating back to the 2021 fiscal year.

SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg speaks during the EC's meeting Sept. 17, 2024, in Nashville. Photo by Brandon Porter

By Scott Barkley, posted September 17, 2024 in Executive Committee, Sexual Abuse

SBC president and North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley gives his first address to the SBC Executive Committee Tuesday, Sept. 17. Photo by Brandon Porter

By David Roach, posted September 17, 2024 in Executive Committee

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC will thrive through challenging days ahead if it holds fast to its confession of faith and its cooperative ministry model, SBC President Clint Pressley told the Convention’s Executive Committee Sept. 17.

Carolyn Fountain, chair of the Executive Committee's Committee on Events and Strategic Planning, presents her report to the EC Sept. 17, 2024 in Nashville. Photo by Brandon Porter.