![]() ![]() Baucham serves on the board of Founders Ministries and is a member of the CBN steering council, two groups with Southern Baptist members. The conference has no organizing documents or stated qualifications for its officers. It is unclear whether Baucham’s lack of membership in a Southern Baptist congregation precludes his nomination. They are both affiliated with Reformed Baptists of Zambia. Neither the university where Baucham now serves nor the church where he is a member is Southern Baptist. Grace Family contributed $500 through the Cooperative Program in 2021, which was the church’s first CP gift since 2014, a Southern Baptists of Texas spokesperson told Baptist Press. We support him monthly, and he regularly comes back and preaches at our church and other conferences.” “He continues to be a part of our church since we are the Southern Baptist Church that sent him out. He is a member of Kabwata Baptist Church in Zambia and has been since 2015. “Therefore, when we sent him out to Zambia, he joined the solid biblical church he was attending. There is no such thing as an inactive member,” Frye and Wright said in a jointly signed email. This is, by the way, what Voddie always taught while he was preaching in the church. “We only have active members at Grace Family Baptist Church. Several other CBN members are signatories as well, including current SBC First Vice President Lee Brand.īaucham left his position as founding pastor of Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, in 2015 and is no longer an active member there, current pastors Erin Frye and Aaron Wright told Baptist Press. Stone is senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist in Blackshear, Ga. Among those is Mike Stone, a member of the SBC Executive Committee and the steering committee of the Conservative Baptist Network (CBN), who lost the SBC presidency in 2021 in a runoff with Ed Litton. The statement supporting Baucham’s nomination is signed by 11 people. “He will give the exact kind of leadership needed for the SBC Pastors’ Conference, an event which in recent years has shifted radically from one of the high points of the entire year into what many have termed ‘Woke Fest.’ The importance of restoring that pivotal event cannot be overstated.” “Voddie Baucham is one of the most faithful expositors of our day, a day in which sound preaching is more important than ever,” the Founders Ministries statement said. ![]() The nomination was also announced in a statement posted at the Founders Ministries website. (BP) - Voddie Baucham, dean of theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference president at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, according to a story published at the Daily Wire, a conservative news site conceived and founded by political commentators Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing. ![]()
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