Ask Southern Baptists their favorite part of their annual meeting, and nearly everyone will tell you: the missionary-sending presentation. Couples and individuals getting ready to serve abroad introduce themselves from the convention stage, with those bound for sensitive countries hidden in silhouette, and the crowd prays for them.
They represent what leaders see as the heart of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC): autonomous churches coming together to fund missions and ministry work as they have since the launch of the SBC’s Cooperative Program 100 years ago.
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