The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee on Tuesday named attorney D. August “Augie” Boto as its interim president following the retirement of former president Frank Page last month due to an “inappropriate relationship.”
Boto, who previously served as the entity’s lawyer and executive vice president, was named interim president following a meeting of executive committee officers in Nashville, Tennessee, reports SBC’s official news service Baptist Press.
According to committee chairman Stephen Rummage, senior pastor of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Florida, Boto has over 20 years of service to the SBC.
Boto served for three years as a member of the committee during the 1990s and then was selected to serve as the committee’s vice president for convention policy and staff counsel in 1998. Boto began serving as executive vice president and general counsel of the executive committee in 2007.
Boto, a father of three, also serves as a Sunday School teacher and a Bible study leader at Forest Hills Baptist Church in Nashville.
“The officers have confidence that Augie will provide stability in leadership for the Executive Committee during this interim period as the EC begins its search for a new…
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