On the first Saturday of fall, a sweating Bart Barber trekked across a weedy pasture in search of Bully Graham, the would-be patriarch of the rural Baptist pastor s fledgling cattle herd.
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.