SBC 2022: June 13 PM Recap

Highlights from the evening of Monday, June 13, include:

Daniel Dickard is the new president of the SBC Pastors’ Conference by a razor thin margin. Dickard — pastor of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina — received 690 votes and Voddie Baucham received 608.
Other meetings held included the Filipino Annual Meeting, the Council of Korean Southern Baptist Churches in America, the National African American Fellowship Business Meeting, 9Marks, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and several state fellowships.

For more stories from the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, visit thebaptistpaper.org/sbc2022.

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