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By Rye Druzin, Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram
MIDLAND, TEXAS - The First Baptist Church council, in a meeting with members in a nearly full church hall Wednesday night, cited low oil prices, falling tithes and dropping membership as the main reasons for cutting $1.3 million from the current year’s fiscal budget. Thirteen positions were cut, and 10 positions have been left vacant.
The budget cuts came as the church faced a deficit of at least $925,000, according to the council’s presentation and minutes obtained from FBC’s website. Art Hobbs, vice chairman of the church council, made the hour-long presentation about the fiscal situation, saying that the staff reductions, along with other cuts, shed more than $1.3 million in costs ...
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