NEW ORLEANS The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to reelect Lake City native Bart Barber as its president, giving him another year to lead the nation s largest Protestant denomination.
Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber wasn't raised in a megachurch. His early leadership lessons can be traced to country churches, not crystal cathedrals, tight-knit houses of worship where relatives and friends outnumbered strangers.
ANAHEIM, Calif. Southern Baptists chose a northeast Arkansas native as president Tuesday evening, placing Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, at the helm of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.