NAMB trustees gather in prayer for Geoff Hammond and his wife, Debbie. Trustees unanimously approved Hammond as NAMB's new president in a March 21 meeting. | (Photo: NAMB) A missions body within the Southern Baptist Convention has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling against the organization regarding the firing of a former state convention leader. In 2017, the SBC North American Missions Board was sued by Will McRaney, the former executive director of Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. McRaney claimed that NAMB officials had, among other things, made defamatory statements against him to get him fired from the convention.