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HENDERSONVILLE'S FIRST BAPTIST'S STEVE SCOGGINS ELECTED THIS WEEK TO LEAD NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION

Steve Scoggins, pastor of First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, N.C.,  this week was elected convention president.

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina's 2019 officers are Steve Scoggins, president (center); Micheal Pardue, first vice president (right); and Matthew Ledbetter, second vice president (left).

Steve Scoggins, pastor of First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, N.C., was elected convention president.

Micheal Pardue, pastor of First Baptist Icard in Connelly Springs, N.C., was elected first vice president.

Matthew Ledbetter, pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Sylva, N.C., was elected second vice president.

Scoggins and Ledbetter both ran unopposed, and Pardue was elected over Perry Brindley, associational mission strategist for the Buncombe Baptist Association, in the only race that had multiple candidates.

Of the 697 ballots that were properly cast, Pardue received 418 votes (60 percent), and Brindley received 279 votes (40 percent). Ten ballots were improperly cast.

Scoggins was nominated by Michael Barrett, messenger from Pleasant Garden Baptist Church in Pleasant Garden, N.C.

Pardue was nominated by Ed Yount, a messenger from Woodlawn Baptist Church in Conover, N.C.

Ledbetter was nominated by Jeff Isenhour, a messenger from Arran Lake Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C.

ABOUT STEVE SCOGGINS, SENIOR PASTOR HENDERSONVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION   

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Pastor Steve previously served as Senior Pastor of FBC from 1992 to 2001. He came back to FBC Hendersonville in 2014. He has pastored churches in Oklahoma, Georgia, and Alabama. He has a BA degree from Samford University, and an MDIV from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Steve and his wife, Karen, have five grown children, and eleven grandchildren. Over the years he has developed a pattern of preaching through books of the New Testament on Sunday mornings, and the Old Testament on Wednesday nights, with "Rabbit Chasing" question and answer sessions.

Steve's focus for his life and the church is to Lift Up Jesus and Love People

Favorite Scripture: John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.".