Knoxville, Tenn. | North Carolina pastor Bruce Frank will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention president at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting. Frank will be nominated by Tennessee pastor John Mark Harrison. “I have known Bruce personally for many years. When I led student ministry at Biltmore Church, Bruce became the pastor, and our plateaued […]
Jeff Iorg elected to lead SBC Executive Committee
Jeff Iorg will become the eighth leader of the SBC Executive Committee. Iorg received a unanimous vote from 60 EC members at a special-called EC meeting March 21. He is the first unanimously elected EC president since Harold Bennett in 1979. Iorg, 65, will serve as president-elect until his tenure as president of Gateway Seminary […]
DOJ concludes Executive Committee investigation; ‘no further action’
Nashville, Tenn. | The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded its investigation of the SBC Executive Committee, Southern Baptist leaders learned Feb. 29. In a statement today, Jonathan Howe, interim SBC EC president/CEO, said the DOJ has told the EC’s legal counsel there is “no further action to be taken.” Email requests for comment from […]
EC president/CEO candidate withdraws from search process
Nashville | The chairman of the team searching for the next leader of the SBC Executive Committee has let the members know their candidate has withdrawn his name. A release from search team chair Neal Hughes was sent to EC members on Tuesday morning. The group had announced Jan. 8 that they planned to bring a candidate […]
SBC Cooperation Group to survey Southern Baptist churches
Nashville, Tenn. | The SBC’s Cooperation Group is asking Southern Baptist churches to complete a survey to provide key information for their research. The group is working to present a report to messengers next June at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis that could reassert or more closely define what it means for a church […]
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