Baptists Elect New Leader

Southern Baptists have a new leader. Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention elected Georgia pastor Johnny Hunt as their president. Hunt serves as senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Woodstock. He led six candidates with 53%. Frank Cox, pastor of the Atlanta-area North Metro First Baptist Church, took 22% of the vote. Out-going president Frank Page says Hunt is part of the old regime he tried to get the Convention to move away from.