{"id":305183,"date":"2026-06-12T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305183\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:32:08","slug":"weekend-review-highlights-from-sbc-annual-meeting-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305183\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend review: Highlights from SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports and other articles from The Baptist Paper this week, see below.<\/p>\n<p>1. Mohler\u2019s proposed constitutional amendment about pastoral qualifications passed after a short discussion and balloting at the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/messengers-approve-mohler-amendment-in-first-of-required-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Messengers approve Mohler amendment in first of required two years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. The Southern Baptist Convention has a new group of officers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/new-sbc-officers-elected-during-annual-meeting-in-orlando\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New SBC officers elected during annual meeting in Orlando<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Inflation and declining Cooperative Program giving have put pressure on the IMB budget, but strong giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and an increase in IMB funding next year will help keep missionary efforts strong, IMB President Paul Chitwood told messengers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/imb-grateful-to-receive-51-of-cp-budget-allocation-in-upcoming-fiscal-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/imb-grateful-to-receive-51-of-cp-budget-allocation-in-upcoming-fiscal-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. If you couldn\u2019t make it to Orlando, Florida, this week for the SBC Pastors Conference and Annual Meeting, you can view the recordings of the main sessions at\u00a0Baptist Press\u2019s YouTube page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/couldnt-be-in-the-room-watch-the-pastors-conference-and-sbc-business-session-recordings-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/couldnt-be-in-the-room-watch-the-pastors-conference-and-sbc-business-session-recordings-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports and other articles from The Baptist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-305183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}