HARTSELLE, Ala. — Frank Cox, senior pastor of North Metro First Baptist Church, Lawrenceville, Ga., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) during the SBC’s June 10–11 annual meeting in Indianapolis, Alabama evangelist Junior Hill announced Feb. 7.
A week later, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., withdrew from the race citing health issues due to a precancerous tumor in his colon.
William L. “Bill” Wagner, a former Southern Baptist missionary and seminary professor and current president of Olivet University International in San Francisco, and Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Buena Park, Calif., are the other candidates that have been announced.
Cox is a former president of the Georgia Baptist Convention and former SBC first vice president. He also served on the SBC Executive Committee for nine years and currently is a member of the SBC Funding Study Committee.
He was a member of the Ad Hoc Cooperative Program (CP) Committee, which formed in 2003 and issued its final report in 2006 with recommendations about how to revitalize the SBC’s primary giving channel.
Hill, of Hartselle, described Cox as “a man’s man, a pastor’s pastor, a Southern Baptist’s Southern Baptist and a man after God’s own heart.”
Cox’s Atlanta-area church “models missions, evangelism and faithful stewardship as well as any church I know,” Hill said. “He has a rapport with younger pastors and will help get them involved in the great work of our denomination. As our convention president, he will speak with a clear voice to call our nation back to God.”
North Metro First Baptist Church gave 13.4 percent of its total undesignated receipts through the CP in 2006.
For more information on Mohler, visit www.sbts.edu.
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