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John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor who has served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [1] He resigned as senior pastor on September 22. 2024, to pursue an itinerant preaching ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention and has ...
The church's most well-known leader, Adrian Rogers, was the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist from 1972 until March 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to over 29,000. [4] The 40-year-old native Floridian was pastor of First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida.
Steve Gaines, who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016-18, first accepted the pastorate at Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.
Steve Gaines told his congregation about his diagnosis during Sunday worship services. He will be seeking treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The Tennessee pastor was “known for his kindness,” his church said on Facebook. Beloved pastor dies after Ironman triathlon, TN church says. ‘I thank God for Tim’
He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida from 1964 to 1972. In 1972, he became the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until March 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to 29,000, and the church moved into a new, megachurch facility. [4]
A community mourns the loss of a Memphis pastor who reportedly died in a car crash over the weekend. Pastor Brian Bartlett was identified on his church's social media page and by multiple news ...
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