TBC in Major Fundraising Effort 
by Ed Hogan, TBC treasurer 

Each of you receiving this newsletter should also have received a direct mail plea to give support the last week in December. We hope you will respond. If you do give, you will receive thanks. If you do not, to be honest, we will keep asking. We are trying to raise funds this year. 

The reason is simple. This is important work. How important? How would you feel right now if SBC-type fundamentalists controlled the BGCT? How would you feel if they had fired the president of the Baptist university you attended along with the religion faculty? How would you feel if Jerry Falwell had preached the BGCT annual sermon this year in Corpus Christi or another year? 

Without TBC, these things could have happened. Much is still to be done. We continually hear of churches torn apart by fundamentalism. We have much education left to do. Our newsletter reaches less than 1 percent of Texas Baptists. We need to be mailing 500,000 copies instead of 20,000. We need to get books and resources into the hands of as many Texas Baptists as possible. Our influence needs to grow. This can happen only as we more widely spread our message. That can only happen when we have the funds to share our message. 

Is a free BGCT worth $35 a year to you? I would hope so. Please give to support Texas Baptists Committed. 

January 2001