Ronnie FloydJohnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Ga., announced May 7 that he will nominate Ronnie Floyd, pastor of First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., for president of the Southern Baptist convention during the annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C., June 13-14.
“Dr. Floyd is matched for our times because of his leadership through the years in our denomination,” Hunt said in a statement to Baptist Press. “He has served on the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention for 10 years, serving for two of those years as its chairman. While in this role, he served also as a member of the selected seven-member committee that restructured the Southern Baptist Convention.
“He also served on the search committee that called the president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. He served as president of the 1997 Pastors’ Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention. Currently, he serves as a trustee of GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.”
Floyd has been pastor of the Arkansas congregation for almost 20 years. Under his leadership, the church grew from 3,700 members to more than 16,000 members and baptized more than 11,700 people.
Additionally, the church has planted 17 churches in the U.S. and overseas in the past seven years.
Information from the 2005 Annual Church Profile survey for Springdale First Baptist lists 819 baptisms. The church gave $32,000 through the Cooperative Program and $189,000 to SBC causes distributed through the SBC allocation budget. According to the ACP, the church had total undesignated receipts of $11,952,137 and total mission expenditures of $1,637,503, including $54,261 for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and $9,516 for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.
Springdale First Baptist conducts an average of 12 international mission trips annually, and has started a total of 25 churches across America and the world since 1992. Floyd speaks daily on “Winners,” a national and international TV ministry. He has written 17 books, and another – “The Top 10 Lessons Every Minister Needs To Know” – will be released later this year.