LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kevin Ezell, senior pastor of Highview Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference during its June 21–22 meeting in Louisville, a former conference president, Hayes Wicker, announced May 14. Ezell, a native of Paducah, Ky., also has led churches in Illinois, Tennessee and Texas and is a graduate of Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, where he earned a master of divinity degree; and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., where he earned a doctor of ministry degree.
Information from the 2008 Annual Church Profile (ACP) survey response submitted for Highview Baptist lists 128 baptisms and primary worship service attendance of 3,165. The church gave $226,467, or 3.5 percent, through the Cooperative Program from total undesignated receipts of $6,529,724. According to the ACP, the church’s total missions expenditures were $1,112,514. The church’s business administrator, Chip Evans, said Highview actually gave more than $1.2 million to missions in 2008 and that a portion of those missions funds were given through the Kentucky and Indiana Baptist state conventions. Evans said Highview funded a number of local missions efforts but that the majority of the funds went to plant churches in Philadelphia; Atlanta; New York; Boise, Idaho; Indianapolis; and Cleveland. Highview also directly funded international missions work in Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Zambia, North Africa, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, India, Asia and the Philippines, he said. The church is dually affiliated with both the Kentucky Baptist Convention and State Convention of Baptists in Indiana.
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