A second nominee has been announced for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, making it the first contested race for an SBC post so far this year. See candidates for other SBC officer positions below.
Craig Carlisle, current Alabama Baptist State Convention president and director of missions for Etowah Baptist Convention, will be nominated by Jared Cornutt, pastor of North Shelby Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Carlisle joins Tommy Mann, pastor of Highland Terrace Baptist Church in Greenville, Texas, who will be nominated for SBC second vice president by Jim Gatliff, associational missionary for Hunt Baptist Association. Mann is originally from Orlando, Florida, and has served churches in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas during his more than 20-year ministry career.
Other officer positions
Clint Presley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be nominated for a second term as SBC president by Michael Criner, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Rockwall, Texas. Pressley served as vice president of the SBC Pastors Conference in 2013. He also served as first vice president of the SBC 2014–2015. In 2015, he served as a trustee — which included time as trustee chair — for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also has served on the board of directors for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Daniel Ritchie, an author and evangelist from North Carolina, will be nominated for first vice president by Matt Capps, lead pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Apex, North Carolina. A former student pastor in North Carolina and Arizona churches, Ritchie speaks at various events around the country and preached during the 2022 SBC Pastors Conference in Anaheim, California.
Don Currence, current SBC registration secretary, will be nominated to serve again as registration secretary by Larry Craig, a member of Whitehouse Baptist Fellowship in Texas. Currence is the administrative pastor at First Baptist Church Ozark, Missouri, and also serves as mayor of Ozark.
Nathan Finn, current SBC recording secretary Nathan Finn, professor and the executive director of the Institute for Faith and Culture at North Greenville University in South Carolina, will be renominated as recording secretary by Louisiana pastor Jay Adkins, pastor of First Baptist Church Westwego.
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This story appeared in The Baptist Paper.
