INDIANAPOLIS — Messengers at the SBC annual meeting are still waiting to see who the next president will be.
With six candidates originally in the race, voting on Tuesday night did not result in a winner, instead leading to a run-off between the top three vote-getters — Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C.; Dan Spencer, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sevierville; and David Allen, a professor at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis.
The run-off was held on Wednesday morning, but once again, none of the three candidates received the required number of votes (“50 percent plus one”), which led to yet another run-off, this time between Spencer and Pressley.
Those votes were still being tabulated as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
On the first ballot, Pressley finished first with 2,289 votes (25.52 percent), followed by Allen with 1,896 votes (21.14 percent) and Spencer with 1,585 votes (17.67 percent).
Bruce Frank, pastor of Biltmore Church, a multi-site congregation in western North Carolina, Jared Moore, pastor of Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, and Mike Keahbone, pastor of First Baptist Church in Lawton, Okla., were eliminated. Frank received 1,396 votes (15.56 percent), followed by Moore with 921 votes (10.27 percent) and Keahbone with 868 (9.68 percent). B&R
