Delegates to the 2014 Family Faith Fest of the National Baptist Convention of America, International, Inc., have elected Lake Charles, La., native Pastor Samuel C. Tolbert Jr. as the 15th president of the convention.
A Louisiana pastor was elected the 15th president of the National Baptist Convention of America, International, Inc., at the group’s June 23-27 annual meeting in Memphis, Tenn.
Samuel Tolbert, pastor of the Greater St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church of Lake Charles, La., defeated incumbent president Stephen Thurston of Chicago and George Brooks of Nashville, Tenn., in a three-way race, according to a press release.
According to the National Council of Churches’ 2012 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the National Baptist Convention of America, International, Inc., is the eighth-largest religious body in the U.S., with 3.5 million members. Among Baptist bodies, only the 5.1 million-member National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., and 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention are bigger.
Tolbert, 55, is former general secretary of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., and since 2005 has led as president the Louisiana Home and Foreign Missions State Convention.
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SOURCE: Associated Baptist Press
Bob Allen
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