Motion to create a Missouri Baptist Convention Task Force

offered by David M. Fulk

12 April 2000

That Second Baptist Church create a Missouri Baptist Convention Task Force with five to seven members to be appointed by the pastor and affirmed by the church not later than the July business meeting.  The pastor will serve as an ex-officio member of this “temporary committee.”

The Task Force will have the following functions:

• study and educate us about the importance of our historic and current ties to the Missouri Baptist Convention;

• become informed and educate the congregation about the current takeover plans of our convention by fundamentalists known as Project 1000;

• inform the congregation about what is being done to counter-act this takeover, particularly through the efforts of Mainstream Missouri Baptists;

• prepare our elected Missouri Baptist Convention messengers to be informed of related convention issues;

• provide a report to the congregation following the convention; and

• when necessary, recommend actions to the church which are consistent with our church’s understanding and expression of historic Baptist values relating to the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.