Posted on 06/11/2024 11:30:07 AM PDT by Morgana
The only thing the SBC’s North American Mission Board likes more than not being financially transparent is flouting their gaudy expenses in the face of sacrificially-giving pew-sitters, perfectly exemplified by NAMB’S 2024 annual meeting exhibit, which featured a race car wrapped in their logo and colors.
Because the institutions react to Form 990s* as vampires react to sunlight, we’ll never know if they spent thousands, tens of thousands, or even more on it.
What we do know, however, is that whatever money was spent is a slap in the face to all the little church ladies giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, thinking that their gifts will support missionaries.
In reality, this reads as funding an inside joke between SBC elites to see how much they can tweak the nobodies who are asking for financial transparency, knowing they’ll never give it.
“The 990 is the tax form the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires all 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable and nonprofit organizations to submit annually. The Form 990 is designed to increase financial transparency and includes revenue, expenditure, and income data in addition to information used to assess whether a nonprofit aligns with federal requirements for tax-exempt status.” Source
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So when big homes with pools, expensive cars and jet planes are not enough?
Does NAMB have any relationship to NAMBLA?
No. It is part of the Domestic Missions for the Southern Baptist Convention. Hence the reference to the “little old ladies.”
Little old ladies drive race cars in that church?
My grandmother would have. She had a 1964 Lincoln Continental, that had a 430 engine that used 101 octane gas. She thought nothing of driving at 80 MPH. In 1982, I drove it. It buried the speedometer (120 MPH) and was still grabbing gears. The crazy thing was that it was like driving your sofa down the highway. You were completely divorced from the experience. If you didn’t notice passing the telephone poles or ignored the speedometer, you would think that it was a nice Sunday drive.
They were from Pasadena.....so I heard.
FWIW, the NAMB conference yesterday (and the current sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention) are in Indianapolis. Every time you turn a corner around the city, there seems to be something recalling the racing heritage.
And I’m guessing they rented or borrowed the race car. Wrapping it wouldn’t exactly break the bank.
PS. There was a motion made today for a “forensic audit” of the NAMB:
https://sbcvoices.com/introduction-of-new-motions/
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