Lexington, USA - Kentucky Baptists have voted to cut staff and programs as part of a plan to send more money to missionaries overseas.
The vote is in line with a task force recommendation to transfer funding to the mission work.
The 621-317 vote Tuesday took place at the annual meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington.
The Courier-Journal reports that Baptists voted to make the cuts more gradually than originally proposed, approving the task force's revised recommendation to spread out the cuts across 10 years.
The move slightly reduced the levels of cuts in the first year to programs within the Kentucky Baptist Convention and two affiliated colleges, Campbellsville University and the University of the Cumberlands.