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Johnny Hunt seeks second term as SBC president
Baptist Press
June 18, 2009
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Johnny Hunt seeks second term as SBC president

Johnny Hunt seeks second term as SBC president
Baptist Press
June 18, 2009

Baptist Press file photo

Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt, seen here speaking to SBC Executive Committee members Sept. 22, is seeking a second term in office.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Johnny Hunt, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., will be nominated for a second, one-year term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) by Florida pastor Ken Whitten.

The SBC will meet in Louisville, Ky., June 23-24. Hunt was elected over five other candidates in 2008 on the first ballot, with nearly 53 percent support.

A native of North Carolina, Hunt has been pastor of the Atlanta-area church since December 1986. During his first year as pastor, the church baptized 318 people and had 268 additions by statement and letter.

The Woodstock congregation relocated to an 82-acre site in the fall of 2004. The $54 million sanctuary, which seats 7,500, hosts two morning worship services.

Information from the 2008 Annual Church Profile (ACP) for First Baptist Church showed 505 baptisms and primary worship service attendance of 6,504 and giving of $432,977, or 2.48 percent, through the Cooperative Program on total undesignated receipts of $17.45 million. According to the ACP, the church’s total mission expenditures were $3.61 million, with $175,000 given for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. The ACP did not record an amount given for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.

Hunt is a graduate of Gardner-Webb College in Boiling Springs. He earned a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1981. The Chair of Church Growth at Southeastern was named for Hunt in 1997.

Hunt is married to the former Janet Allen of Wilmington. The couple has two daughters and four grandchildren.

He is the only announced candidate for president.