Frank Page was expected to be nominated for the customary second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention as this issue of The Baptist Courier went to press June 8.
Dale Morell, pastor of Maine Street Baptist Church in Brunswick, Maine, announced June 1 he will nominate Page during the SBC’s June 12-13 annual meeting in San Antonio.
Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, was elected to a one-year term as SBC president during last year’s convention in Greensboro, N.C.
“We’ve seen the passion he has about sharing the gospel,” Morell said in his news release, “and we’ve observed how he cares and responds to people on a personal level.”
Morell also noted, “In the past, nominators have been from well-known churches in more established states in the South. However, for me to be able to nominate Dr. Frank Page is a true honor. My nomination of him should show his concern for small- and medium-size churches and particularly for small- and medium-size churches in pioneer areas.
“As I will say in my nomination speech, Dr. Page has had an ongoing relationship with the Baptist churches in Maine, in which he has personally taken a role of encouraging our churches and pastors,” Morell said. “He is a man who examples for us a leader who truly cares about all people, not just large churches, not just Southerners, but all of God’s people.”
Page has been pastor of Taylors First for the past six years. Information from Southern Baptists’ Annual Church Profile survey for 2006 for the church lists 104 baptisms and worship service attendance of 2,184. The church gave $629,505, or 12.5 percent, through the Cooperative Program from total undesignated receipts of $5,028,496.