Addison to be nominated ABSC president

CABOT – Greg Addison, pastor of First Baptist Church (FBC), Cabot, will be nominated as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) at the upcoming annual meeting Nov. 1-2. 

Addison is serving as president of the 2011 ABSC Pastors’ Conference.

Gary Hollingsworth, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, Little Rock, will nominate Addison.

Addison“Greg has a huge heart for evangelism and missions and represents the very best of what we should look for as a leader in our convention,” said Hollingsworth. 

“FBC, Cabot, is a strong Cooperative Program-giving church and is doing a marvelous job of reaching people for Christ, beginning in their own Jerusalem and reaching around the world. Arkansas Baptists are blessed to have leaders like Greg Addison who are committed to keep us focused on working together to reach the world for Christ.”

Addison, 46, has served as pastor of First Baptist, Cabot, since February 2007. The church, which reported 56 baptisms in 2010, has an average Sunday school attendance of more than 900 and receipts of more than $2 million. In 2010, the church gave $186,850 to the Cooperative Program; $10,413 to Dixie Jackson; $35,834 to Lottie Moon; and $5,413 to Annie Armstrong.

Prior to coming to Cabot, Addison was pastor of East Side Baptist Church, Paragould, for five years. From June 1998 to May 2002, Addison served as minister to senior adults at Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn.

Prior to being called into vocational ministry in 1995, Addison worked as an attorney at two Memphis law offices.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis in 1987 and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee in 1990.

Addison and his wife, Janet, have two children.