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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.
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]
“As a pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Adams did more than offer words of hope and inspiration from his pulpit, he created opportunity by purchasing and developing land around ...
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
Adams spent a half-century as pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church before retiring in 2019. Adams died Wednesday following a bout with pneumonia, his sister, Edith Clifton, told The Detroit ...