DALLAS—Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas elected a slate of officers, reelecting Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., to a second term as president.
Michael Criner, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Rockwall, nominated Pressley, saying, “Clint Presley loves being a Southern Baptist … and has represented us so well.”
“Clint Pressley has earned our trust for another year as our president,” Criner said.
Pressley was elected 5,567 (92.64 percent) to 408 (6.79 percent) over David Morrill of Applewood Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge, Colo., writer and publisher of the Protestia website.
Chris Cunningham, pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church of Big Spring, nominated Morrill, calling him “a soldier for the truth.”
Daniel Ritchie, a North Carolina vocational evangelist and author, was elected first vice president.
Ritchie received 5,409 votes (87.84 percent), while Larry Helms, pastor of Fort Lawn Baptist Church in Fort Lawn, S.C., received 722 votes (11.72 percent). Out of 6,158 votes, 27 (0.44 percent) were disallowed.
Craig Carlisle, director of missions for Etowah Baptist Association and president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, was elected second vice president.
Carlisle received 3,765 votes (56.46 percent), while Tommy Mann, pastor of Highland Terrace Baptist Church in Greenville, received 2,057 votes (30.85 percent), and Christopher Rhodes, pastor of Dover Baptist Temple in Dover, Ohio, received 806 votes (12.09 percent). Forty votes (0.6 percent) were disallowed.
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Jim Gatliff, director of missions in Hunt Baptist Association, nominated Mann. Highland Terrace Baptist is dually aligned with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Messengers to the annual meeting reelected by acclamation Don Currence, administrative pastor at First Baptist Church in Ozark, Mo., as registration secretary and Nathan Finn, professor at North Greenville University in South Carolina, as recording secretary.
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