LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jimmy Scroggins, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, West Palm Beach, Fla., will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference during its June 21–22 meeting in Louisville.
Scroggins, who has served the West Palm Beach congregation since July 2008, will be nominated by Paul Chitwood, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Mount Washington, Ky., and an assistant professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in Louisville.
Before going to First, West Palm Beach, Scroggins served as teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church, Louisville, and professor of youth ministry and evangelism at SBTS and its undergraduate program, Boyce College. He also served as dean of Boyce from 2004 to 2008.
Information from the 2008 Annual Church Profile for First, West Palm Beach, showed 74 baptisms and primary worship service attendance of 1,678. The congregation gave $29,335, or 0.6 percent, through the Cooperative Program on total undesignated receipts of $4.25 million. It gave $73,000 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and $8,200 to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.
Scroggins is the first announced candidate for the position.
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