J. D. Greear

[1] He also hosts Summit Life, a half-hour daily radio broadcast and weekly TV program.

[5] He graduated from Word of Life Bible Institute and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Campbell University.

Within three years, the church had grown to the point that it had to sell its old facility and move services to Riverside High School in Durham.

[10] In 2018, Greear became the president of the Southern Baptist Convention[11] and was re-elected by acclamation for a second one-year term in 2019 in an uncontested election.

[12] His term in office was extended to a third year when the 2020 annual meeting of the SBC was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a successor could not be elected.