Clint Pressley, senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, might be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Conference, the biggest Protestant denomination in the US.
Pastor Chris Justice of Lee Park Baptist Church in Monroe, North Carolina, introduced Sunday that he would nominate Pressley, in response to the Biblical Recorder.
“Clint Pressley loves the Southern Baptist Conference and the mission that holds us collectively,” Justice stated. “I do know he’s a person of conviction who’s joyfully orthodox, dedicated to the Nice Fee and dedicated to our cooperation as Southern Baptists.”
Justice famous that Pressley “led his church to plant and revive different church buildings, ship missionaries, and provides sacrificially within the Cooperative and Nice Fee Program.”
Pressley is reportedly the primary introduced candidate for this yr's SBC presidential election, which might be determined in June on the SBC's annual assembly June 9-12 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
His church, Hickory Grove, had 69 baptisms and averaged 2,632 worshipers final yr, the Biblical Recorder added, whereas donating greater than $244,000 to Lottie Moon's Christmas providing for worldwide missions and about $73,000 to Annie Armstrong's Easter providing for North American mission.
Based on his official biography, Pressley holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford Faculty in South Carolina and a Grasp of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Along with Hickory Grove, Pressley led two church buildings in Mississippi and the Dauphin Method Baptist Church of Cellular, Alabama. In 2011, he was named senior pastor of Hickory Grove.
Pressley additionally served as vice chairman of the SBC's Pastors' Convention in 2013, first vice chairman of the SBC in 2014-2015, a board member of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2015, and a board member of North Carolina Baptist since final yr. yr.
Pressley turned concerned in SBC politics infrequently. Nominated Florida pastor Willy Rice for SBC president in 2022; present SBC President Bart Barber received that election.
Pressley was additionally among the many critics of former Vice President Mike Pence's speech earlier than the SBC's 2018 annual assembly in Dallas, Texas, which some felt was too politically oriented.
“I really like America. I like Mike Pence. I hate it,” he tweeted Pressley acquired 491 likes for his publish on the time.
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