(BP) - Knoxville pastor and past Tennessee Baptist Convention President Mike Boyd will be nominated as first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC's June 21-22 annual meeting in Nashville.

Boyd, senior pastor of Knoxville's Wallace Memorial Baptist Church since 1997, will be nominated by current TBC President Roger Freeman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Clarksville.

Freeman said that Boyd seemed to be a natural fit for the post also because of his experience as a FAITH trainer and pastor and his relationship to FAITH originator Bobby Welch, current president of the SBC who is expected to be re-elected to another one-year term at the annual meeting in Nashville.