Holly Berkley Fletcher, whose parents were Southern Baptist missionaries to Africa, writes,
“I don't think it's any coincidence that the largest, most successful missionary enterprise in the history of the world — the Southern Baptist Convention’s missions arm, the International Mission Board (IMB) — was built by a church founded to defend slavery."
~ The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025), p. 12.