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Bellevue Baptist Church Senior Pastor Steve Gaines has been diagnosed with kidney cancer and shared the news with his congregation during Sunday services this past weekend. Gaines stood in front ...
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 ...
Steve Gaines, who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016-18, first accepted the pastorate at Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.
On July 10, 2005, members voted to make Steve Gaines the new pastor. Gaines previously served as pastor at First Baptist Church in Gardendale, Alabama; a suburb of Birmingham, for fourteen years. His first sermon as new pastor at Bellevue was on September 11, 2005. Since 1996, Gaines had preached once a year at Bellevue by Rogers' invitation. [14]
Mark Dever - Senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. James T. Draper, Jr. - Southern Baptist Convention president from 1982–1984; Ronnie Floyd - former Senior Pastor of Cross Church and The Church At Pinnacle Hills, and is an author; Steve Gaines - Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee
Palm Sunday is the last week of Lent before Easter Sunday. It is the first day of Holy Week , the most sacred seven days of the Catholic calendar. Many Protestant religions also honor Palm Sunday.
The church was founded in 1876. [1] In 1992, Steve Gaines became senior pastor, before leaving in 2006. In 2006, Kevin Hamm became senior pastor. [2] The church claims weekly attendance of about 3,500 worshipers. [3]
In the past couple years, the Nashville-based SBC disfellowshipped six churches in which women serve as pastors and a proposed measure to enshrine a ban on women pastors received initial approval.