(Capstone Report) New legal filing highlights how McLean Bible Church secretly funneled money to the SBC and claimed it was getting money back for church planting.
McLean Bible Church hid its financial dealings with the Southern Baptist Convention from its Treasurer, according to a bombshell filing in the court case against the church. The new affidavit filed in the case by a former elder and treasurer said he was told to authorize financial contributions to the Southern Baptist Convention and its associated entities of over $500,000 and was not provided documents of how much money the SBC was providing back to the church through the SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB).
Financial dealings with the SBC began in 2017, according to the affidavit signed under penalty of perjury by former elder Craig Proulx. He estimated that McLean Bible Church wrote checks to the Southern Baptist Convention of about $500,000 between 2017 and 2020, when Proulx retired and moved out of state.
According to the affidavit, “Starting in the year of 2017, I began receiving requests to sign Church checks made payable to ‘the Southern Baptist Convention’ or similarly-named entities.”
Proulx continued, “Such checks were relatively large in amount, such as five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or even fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). The memo lines and the backup information for such checks were…to continue reading, click here:
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