Notes:

• A group of Southern Baptist pastors and laymen contacted entities to request salary structures, which entities are required to provide messengers of cooperating churches under Article 14 of the Business and Financial Plan. We did not make that request to the Executive Committee, therefore there is an asterisk in the chart above for them. We also did not ask Lifeway and Guidestone.

• We commend representatives from NOBTS, GBTS, and the ERLC for being willing to have personal, face-to-face conversations about these matters. While we do not necessarily agree all of their with their positions or explanations, we appreciate their willingness to have conversations.

• We were particularly disheartened when NAMB and IMB officials reinterpreted Article 14 of the Business and Financial Plan to deny providing the required information to members of cooperating churches. The two mission agencies replied (after many emails), only saying that trustees set the salaries of their employees.

• We were also disheartened to hear IMB President Dr. Paul Chitwood falsely mischaracterize the 990-Level Financial Transparency motion in his address to IMB trustees in Spring 2024.

• In the lead up to the SBC presidential election in 2024, Clint Pressley expressed support for financial transparency in general, but did not support the 990-Level Financial Transparency motion.