Tenn. layman nominated as CBF moderator-elect

ATLANTA — A Knoxville, Tenn., layman has been nominated as moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF).

Bill McConnell, immediate-past deacon chair at Knoxville’s Central Baptist Church of Bearden, will be recommended for election at the CBF General Assembly on June 20–23 in Fort Worth, Texas. 

If elected he will serve a first year as moderator-elect and then succeed Missouri pastor Keith Herron as moderator in 2013–14. The current moderator is Colleen Burroughs, executive vice president of Passport, a Birmingham-based international student ministry.