Southern Baptist missionaries receive a new coronavirus vaccine mandate

The Southern Baptist Convention’s organization that sends thousands of missionaries overseas announced last week that it will require missionaries and their children ages 16 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The SBC’s International Mission Board said in its announcement that it has been requiring various vaccines since the 1980s, but the new mandate came on Sept. 8, a day before President Biden issued his mandate that businesses with 100 or more employees are required to have them vaccinated or tested weekly.