Last year, as the denomination faced its fourth consecutive year of decline, members adopted a proposal to be more intentional about placing racial and ethnic minorities on SBC committees and agency staff.
As of 2010, African-American churches comprised 8 percent of the denomination’s churches; 50 percent of Southern Baptist churches started in 2011 were non-Anglo.
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