More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
For decades, spending went up at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary while enrollment plummeted, causing the school to overspend by millions in 19 of the last 21 years.
Expenditures include $11K on an espresso machine, $60K on Christmas decorations, and an extravagant home makeover.
The Southern Baptist Convention and Paul Pressler are still defendants in the trial set for May
The past few years have been troubled for prominent SBC seminary, beginning with 2018 firing of controversial president Paige Patterson.