FARMINGTON, Ky. — Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Buena Park, Calif., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) this June, according to an announcement by Kentucky pastor Bill Dodson.
“Over the past 50 years that I’ve been attending Southern Baptist Conventions, I don’t think I’ve ever met a Southern Baptist any more committed to our conservative values than Wiley Drake,” said Dodson, pastor of Bell City Baptist Church near Farmington, Ky., and a former chairman of the trustees of the Annuity Board (now GuideStone Financial Resources).
Information for the most recent year from Southern Baptists’ Annual Church Profile survey, 2004, for First Southern Church, Buena Park, Calif., lists $200 in gifts through the SBC Cooperative Program (CP), with no information provided in other categories. Baptist Press asked Drake for several figures, which he supplied for the past five years. For 2005, church membership stood at 95; 67 baptisms were recorded; total receipts were $96,450, including $1,000 in CP gifts.
The SBC annual meeting will be June 13–14 in Greensboro, N.C.
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