By Message Staff
ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) — Leroy Fountain, church health strategist with the New Orleans Baptist Association, will be re-nominated for a second consecutive term as first vice president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention during the 2019 annual meeting.
Jack Hunter, associational missions strategist for NOBA, notified the Baptist Message, Oct. 18, of his intention to make the nomination.
The LBC annual meeting is scheduled to be held in the Alexandria Riverfront Center, Nov. 11-12.
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
“Our association has never had a more experienced strategist, a keener exegete of culture or a more humble pastor,” Hunter said. “Leroy is a consummate gentleman and an unflinching follower of Christ.”
CANDIDATE’S RESPONSE
“I’m honored that Mr. Jack Hunter has agreed to stand on the stage before Louisiana Baptists and express his trust in me,” Fountain said. “I’m excited about the possibility, if I should be so fortunate to be elected, of serving with Dr. Steve Horn, our newly elected state executive director, as he sets a course and leads Louisiana Baptists through the last half of the first quarter of the 21st century. I’m excited to have served with the outgoing president, Dr. Eddie Wren, and the recently retired Executive Director David Hankins. It has been a blessing to serve with them.”
PERSONAL DATA
According to the NOBA website, Fountain came to the association after many years of service as a church planter and pastor in Georgia and Alabama, denominational servant in Texas, regional manager for church financial planning with GuideStone Financial Resources, and strategy coordinator with the church planting group of the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, Ga.
Fountain earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge and his master’s degree in religion at the Morehouse School of Religion in Atlanta.
Leroy and his wife Carolyn have been married for 41 years and have three adult children: Charena, Marsha and Bridgette, and five grandchildren.
BY THE NUMBERS
The database of the Annual Church Profile shows that Franklin Avenue Baptist has consistently supported cooperative missions and ministries, contributing nearly 6 percent of undesignated receipts, $299,000 in 2017 (the latest stats reported) through the Cooperative Program, up from .2 percent in 2008.
The congregation also gifted $136,741 in 2017 to the New Orleans Baptist Association as well as $7,926 to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, another $4,564 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and $88 to the Georgia Barnette State Mission Offering.
Franklin Avenue Baptist averaged 3,000 in worship attendance in 2018 and baptized 75 new believers.
Moreover, the congregation has witnessed 1,617 baptisms since 2008.
