Yeats will not seek reelection as SBC recording secretary

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John Yeats will not seek reelection as SBC recording secretary. (BP File Photo)

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)—John Yeats’ 25th term as recording secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention will be his last, he told Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board members at the group’s meeting March 7.

Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was unopposed for 22 of those 25 years he was nominated for recording secretary.

As recording secretary, Yeats also served in an ex officio role on the SBC Executive Committee.

In 2011 and 2017, Yeats served at the annual meeting both as recording secretary and registration secretary in place of Jim Wells, who was absent those years due to health issues.

Yeats served 20 years as a pastor in Texas and Kansas before he became director of communications for the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana and editor of the Indiana Baptist newspaper.

From 1997 to 2005, he was editor for the Oklahoma state paper, the Baptist Messenger.

He also was director of communications and public policy for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, which included Cooperative Program promotion and working alongside state legislators.


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