September 21, 2024
A Georgia pastor is among those appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee to a seven-member presidential search committee to recommend a replacement for Ronnie Floyd who resigned last October.
Jeremy Morton, pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock,, just north of Atlanta, will serve along with :
•Mollie Duddleston of Arkansas
•Philip Robertson of Louisiana
•Adron Robinson of Illinois
•Rolland Slade of California (ex officio)
•David Sons of North Carolina
•Mike Keahbone of Oklahoma
Executive Committee members voted on a slate of 23 nominations from the floor and required a second ballot for the sixth position because of a three-way tie between Slade, Keahbone and John Yeats of Missouri.
The position of Executive Committee chairperson, currently held by Slade, is an ex-officio search committee member with the right to vote. Slade, whose term as chairman and as an EC member ends with the SBC annual meeting in June, will serve on the search committee until a new chairperson is elected in June. If Slade had been elected to the committee as a regular member, then the ex officio slot would have been filled by him as well until June and then the new chairperson would step into that slot, bringing the committee to seven at that point.
Newly elected presidential search committee members will select their chair and secretary soon.
Willie McLaurin, elected in February as interim EC president, will serve in the role until a new president is elected.
The election of the presidential search committee was handled according to EC Bylaws.
