OSAGE BEACH – On Tuesday, Oct. 28, messengers to the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) voted to elect Neil Franks as president of the MBC.
Joshua Hedger, who currently serves as the MBC’s second vice president and as director of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Center for Church Planting, nominated Franks as president. Franks, pastor of First Baptist Church, Branson, has served for the past two years as the MBC’s first vice president.
“I have had the joy of serving with Neil as an officer of the convention for two years now,” Hedger said. “I have watched him ask great questions, learn quickly, and lead well. Neil has also led his church, FBC Branson, to be a great commission church through their giving and going to help with missions and church planting all over the world. It is my belief that Neil will help lead Missouri Baptists to continue in that direction, using our resources and our energies for the advancement of the gospel to those who have not heard.”