Candidates for the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., will bring an action plan vision and reinvigoration to the forefront.
Reverend Dr. R.B. Holmes, pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Fla., announces his candidacy for president of the nation’s largest African American Baptist Convention, The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., which has a reported membership of several million members. If elected, Rev. Holmes has selected as his running mate, Vice President-At-Large, Rev. Dr. Cullian W. Hill, Pastor of Greater Concord Missionary Baptist Church, Detroit, and president of the Wolverine State Congress of Christian Education.
Doctors Holmes and Hill have plans to follow a new platform, a “12 Point Action Vision Plan,” designed to rebuild and reenergize the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. This plan includes developing a comprehension plan for the world center; affordable hotel rates; support for pastors with longevity (50 years or more); television and radio programs; developing monetary resources for local churches; senior citizens living complex’s; reevaluating Christian educational plans; job training programs for urban and rural communities; strengthening historical Black colleges and universities; partnering with the athletes of the NFL, NBA and major league baseball to develop a model for building moral character and most of all bridging the gap between young pastors and young adults.
Doctors Holmes and Hill announced this platform in March, 2014 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., at a press conference with other notables in attendance for support: Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant (Md.), Rev. Mike Chandler (Va.), Reverend Dr. Thurmond Everett (N.C.), Rev. Dr. Leroy Gilbert (Md.), Rev. Dr. John H. Grant (N.C.), Rev. Dr. Leonard T. King (Ohio), Rev. Dr. William McKissic (Tex.) and Rev. Dr. D.K. Webster (Ind.).
Doctors Holmes and Hill believe the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. must become more vibrant, visible and viable in developing programs and ministries that will address the needs of community through evangelism, education, economic development and personal responsibility. They have the strategic plan, experience, drive, determination and affiliations to renew and revitalize the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
Doctor R. B. Holmes is a native of Jacksonville, Fla, and has resided in Tallahassee, Fla., since 1986. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Central Florida Junior-College, Ocala, Fla (A.A. Degree); B.A. Degree from Methodist Theological Seminary, Delaware, Ohio; and Doctoral Degree from Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Holmes has been in the ministry for twenty-nine years and is the former President of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education for 10 years.
Dr. Cullian W. Hill is a native of North Carolina and has resided in Detroit, since 1977. His is a graduate of the Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, MI with a Bachelors of Religious Education (BRE). Dr. Hill was honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters from Tennessee School of Religion. Dr. Hill received his Honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Emmaus School of Religion, Elizabethtown, TN. He has been a devotional speaker in the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education for the past 36 years. Dr. Hill is President of the Wolverine State Congress Christian Education.
The election for president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. will be held, Sept. 4, at its annual session in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(The above editorial content is paid for by Rev. Dr. R. B. Holmes.)
