Inasmuch as the churches whose messengers compose the Southern Baptist Convention have no uniform methods of conducting their financial affairs, and inasmuch as the denominational enterprises and interests are made to suffer constant embarrassments and to carry onerous interest-bearing accounts for lack of prompt and uniform monthly remittances from the churches, and in view of devising some remedial and adequate plan for a more prompt, uniform, systematic, and successful support by our churches of all our great mission and other denominational enterprises; therefore,
Be it ordered by the Convention, that Friday afternoon, May 19, be set apart for an open discussion of this important matter, looking to a recommendation by this Convention to our churches of a Church Financial Program, by which existing financial conditions may be bettered throughout the entire constituency of this Convention and our denominational agencies provided with more constant and dependable resources upon which to rely in their plans and operations.