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SBC President – Clint Pressley
Clint Pressley serves as the 65th President of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was elected on June 12, 2024, at the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
He currently serves as Senior Pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Since 2010, he has led the church to exalt Christ, make disciples, and pass the torch of the gospel to the next generation.
A native of Charlotte, Clint joined Hickory Grove as a teenager before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College in South Carolina and a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisiana. He pastored two churches in Mississippi before returning to Hickory Grove in 1999 as Senior Associate Pastor of Preaching. In 2004, he was called as Senior Pastor of the historic Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. In 2010, he returned once again to Hickory Grove as Co-Pastor and was installed as Senior Pastor in 2011.
Pressley has also served the Convention as Vice President of the SBC Pastor’s Conference in 2013, as First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2014-2015, as a trustee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2015, and as a member of the NC Baptist Board of Directors since 2023.
Clint is married to Connie, and they have two sons.
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