Missionary recall for American Baptists? Financial troubles
To overcome a pressing financial deficit, American Baptists Churches USA may reduce up to a fifth of its missionary force unless its mission agency can raise new money.
The head of International Ministries, the ABC’s mission sending agency, said in a July 13 memo to missionaries that the agency may eliminate up to 36 of its 150 missionary positions—28 by recall and eight by attrition—unless it can raise $1.5 million quickly to erase a projected 2004 shortfall.