Baptist relief group pledges $4 million to implement abuse task force ideas, fund victims’ care

A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. A Southern Baptist Convention sexual abuse task force bypassed calls for victim compensation on June 1, 2022, as it suggested ...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…