“Affinity Groups” Within Southern Baptist Convention

A number of leaders of various groups within the Southern Baptist Convention, formed on the basis of ethnicity, signed a statement opposing deportations of illegal immigrants.

According to Baptist Press, these included the following:

John Asante, president, Ghana Baptist Convention

Victor Chayasirisobhon, director, SBC Asian Collective

Keny Felix, president, Southern Baptist Convention National Haitian Fellowship

James Kang, executive director, Council of Korean Southern Baptist Churches in America

Thuam C. Khai, executive director, Myanmar National Baptist Fellowship

Amos Lee, president, Chinese Baptist Fellowship of the United States and Canada

Lito Lucas, president, Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America

Hre Mang, president, Myanmar National Baptist Fellowship

Bruno Molina, executive director, National Hispanic Baptist Network

Philip Nache, pastor, Hope of Nations Fellowship Church, Bloomington, Minn., on behalf of Nigerian churches

Gregory Perkins, president, National African American Fellowship of the SBC

Christian Phang, executive director, Vietnamese Baptist Union

Jesse Rincones, executive director, Texas Hispanic Baptist Convention

Dan Santiago, executive director, Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America

Jeremy Sin, executive director, Chinese Baptist Fellowship of the United States and Canada

Francis Tabla, pastor, Ebenezer Community Church in Brooklyn Park, Minn., on behalf of Liberian churches

This is unfortunately what Cooperative Program dollars are supporting.