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Jeff Crook, pastor of Blackshear Place Baptist Church in Flowery Branch, presents an interpretation of this year’s theme – “Love Loud” – during the closing session of the two-day Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 23-24 in Louisville, Ky.

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Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention officers for 2010, front to back: Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, president; Stephen Rummage, pastor of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., second vice president; John Yeats, communications director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, recording secretary; Jim Wells, director of missions for the Tri County Baptist Association in Nixa, Mo., registration secretary; and, inset, John Mark Toby, pastor of Beacon Hill Baptist Church in Somerset, Ky., first vice president.

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Ken Ellis, leader of the North American Mission Board’s people group/interfaith team, presides over the Black Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network annual meeting June 21 at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. The network is a fellowship for individuals who work in associational, state convention, and denominational entities.