For years churches that took issue with the direction/budget/personalities of the Baptist State Convention have been directing some or all of their cooperative mission gifts around the BSC and sending them directly to the Southern Baptist Convention. At various times this list included the churches of the president and vice president of the board of directors, chairman of the budget committee and chairman of the nominating committee and various board members.

Thanks for the wonderful coverage on Operation Inasmuch. Thirteen years ago our staff sat on the porch of a beach cottage with our new pastor, David Crocker, making plans for the coming year.

I found Nancy Curtis' remarks extremely counterproductive to any effort on the part of WMU-NC in seeking a way forward for a new cooperative relationship with the Baptist State Convention and with N.C. Baptists in general who are still wondering what their relationship with WMU is supposed to be now considering their actions over the past couple of years. Ms. Curtis says on one hand that "There is no ego in this organization of servants," while saying at the same time "no one else does it better," "No one else really does it at all," and "If not WMU, who? There isn't anybody."

When David, the shepherd boy, entered Jerusalem after his victory against Goliath in the valley of Elah (1 Sam. 17:19-23), everyone knew that something miraculous had happened.