Greear to be nominated for second term

Greear to be nominated for second term

North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at the June 11–12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham. Pennsylvania pastor K. Marshall Williams will nominate him.

Greear, pastor of The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, has focused his first year as SBC president on the “Who’s Your One?” evangelism initiative, ethnic and gender diversity in his presidential appointments and a Sexual Abuse Advisory Study, which is advising him on a range of issues related to sexual abuse in the Church. (BP)