UPDATE: Dan Summerlin Changes Mind, Withdraws Name From SBC Executive Committee Interim President

Dan Summerlin
Photo by Abbey Sprinkle. The SBC Executive Committee Vision Stage featured in the exhibit hall at Music City Center holds a panel on “How to Make Your Vision Walk in the Local Church.” The panel included: (right to left) moderator Matt Crawford, pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Cordova, Tenn.; Stephen Rummage, pastor, Quail Springs Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Dan Summerlin, pastor, Lone Oak Baptist Church, Paducah, Ky.; and John Green IV, pastor, Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn.

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Via video, congratulations poured in from church leaders throughout the country and world. Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board, said Summerlin has been “one of my greatest encouragers in ministry.”

Kevin Ezell, a graduate of Lone Oak High School who now serves as North American Mission Board president, thanked Summerlin for supporting missions work. “Truly the impact of your legacy will not be known this side of eternity,” said Ezell.

At his retirement celebration, Summerlin thanked attendees for their love and support. He described his next steps as being “a professional grandparent, an interim pastor, a seminary professor, or a trainer and equipper of young men for pastoral ministries.” Summerlin and his wife, Eileen, have two adult children.

For the past 15 years, Summerlin has met monthly with young pastors “to mentor and to learn from them.” On social media last month, he posted, “The names and faces may have changed but the passion and commitment remains the same.”

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