One week after the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted to recommend spending millions to address the denomination’s sex-abuse crisis, a related charity pledged to help with funding.
Send Relief, a charity collaboration of the SBC’s International and North American Mission Boards said it will supply “$3 million in one-time funds” — the amount the denomination’s leaders estimate will be the price tag for the reforms proposed by an internal task force.
The money will come from “undesignated funds” the charity has, and not from Southern Baptist funds designated for missionaries and evangelism.
Also, the charity will provide what it called “seed funding of $1 million for a survivor-care fund.