Stories tagged with: platt

• IMB's Platt sends open letter to SBC family

  by IMB staff, posted Friday, September 04, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- International Mission Board President David Platt released an open letter to Southern Baptists Friday (Sept. 4), related to the organization’s financial plan announced Aug. 27.

  In the letter, Platt addresses several concerns and criticisms raised related to the plan, specifically the announcement that IMB will reduce its missionaries and staff by 600-800 people over the next six months. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: What now for the IMB & the SBC?

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, August 31, 2015 (9 years ago)

  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- I feel I should address the financial situation of the International Mission Board, released last week to the Southern Baptist Convention. I know there are many questions and concerns that Southern Baptists have about these matters. When I first became aware, I had several questions myself. Read More

• Platt: No Gospel drawdown despite personnel cuts

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, August 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- A reduction of 600-800 International Mission Board staff and field personnel should not decrease the board's Gospel impact worldwide, IMB President David Platt told members of the media during an Aug. 27 conference call.

  "Even if our income from churches were to double over the next year ... we would still have a cap on our ability to send a certain number of full-time, fully supported church planters," Platt said. IMB leaders "want to take that cap off" and "consider all ... Read More

• IMB leaders announce plan to balance budget

  by IMB Staff, posted Thursday, August 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  IMB Photo

  RICHMOND, Va.(BP) -- International Mission Board leaders have outlined a plan to address IMB's revenue shortfalls and complete a reset of the organization in order to move forward into the future with "innovative vision, wise stewardship and high accountability."

  The plan was presented by senior IMB leadership, including President David Platt, during an Aug. 27 town hall meeting including missionaries and staff, who collectively attended either in person or through digital communication. IMB trustees ... Read More

• Platt: World missions 'multiethnic issue'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 31, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Diana Chandler/BP

  RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- All ethnicities are called to world missions, International Mission Board President David Platt told more than 600 black Southern Baptists gathered at Ridgecrest, N.C., acknowledging only 25 of the 4,700 IMB missionaries are African American. Read More

• CP surge showcased in exhibit hall discussions

  by Karen L. Willoughby, Bonnie Pritchett and Erin Roach, posted Monday, June 22, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  By Rebekah Rausch

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Underfoot throughout the exhibit hall at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting were 12-inch directional decals affixed to the carpeting that proclaimed, "Fueled by the Cooperative Program."

  Those decals -- signaling ministries funded by CP gifts at the state or national level -- were in front of at least three-quarters of the exhibits, including the North American Mission Board exhibit, which offered coffee cups emblazoned with the names of Send Cities, and the International Mission Board exhibit, which distributed ... Read More

• IMB, NAMB celebrate missionaries, sending churches

  by Laura Fielding, posted Thursday, June 18, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by John Swain/NAMB

  COLUMBUS, OHIO (BP) -- In a darkened convention center hall filled with Southern Baptist messengers, individual pinpoints of light illuminated the darkness. Moments earlier, in passionate pleas, IMB President David Platt and NAMB President Kevin Ezell urged Southern Baptist messengers not to be cold toward the vast lostness in the world, but to join in God's global mission as church planters, missionaries and sending churches to take the light of the Gospel to a dark world. Read More

• IMB personnel policy may draw messenger questions

  by Staff, posted Monday, June 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- A Louisiana director of missions has urged pastors in the Baptist association he leads to raise questions about new personnel policies of the International Mission Board during the IMB's report at the June 16-17 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to a June 10 report by the Southern Baptist TEXAN newsjournal.

  Lonnie Wascom, a former IMB trustee and director of missions and ministries for the Northshore Baptist Association in Hammond, La, wrote in a June 2 email to the nearly 100 pastors in the association that he has major concerns" related to the missionary qualifications policy adopted ... Read More

• Lottie Moon mission gifts top $153 million

  by Erich Bridges, posted Monday, June 08, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  IMB PHOTO by Joanne Bradberry

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- As they plan creative new ways to reach the lost, International Mission Board and Woman's Missionary Union leaders expressed gratitude to Southern Baptists for the generous support churches gave to the 2014 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.

  Finalized in early June, the 2014 Lottie Moon offering totaled $153,002,394.13 -- the second-highest total in the 126-year history of the offering. Read More

• Platt: God's greatness compels us to go

  by Tess Rivers, posted Monday, May 18, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  IMB photo by Paul W. Lee

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Monica Morley* grew up in a Muslim home. She had many spiritual questions as a child and young teen. For a time she attended a mosque, seeking answers from the religious leaders.

  "I wanted to know God and was curious about how sin can be forgiven," Morley said. "I did not find the answers I was looking for." Read More