NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention official responsible for planning the SBC annual meeting has resigned abruptly, after less than two years on the job and two weeks after this year’s convention meeting in Louisville, Ky.
The Southern Baptist Texan first reported the resignation of Clark Logan, the SBC Executive Committee’s vice president for business and finance since October 2007. Morris Chapman, Executive Committee president and CEO, told the newspaper that Logan resigned July 1. Asked to confirm reports that Logan was fired, Chapman said, “It is not the practice of the Executive Committee to respond to rumors.”
Another Baptist state newspaper, the Florida Baptist Witness, reported that Logan released a statement declining to comment on the reasons for his resignation other than to clarify that he was not accused of, or involved in, anything immoral or unethical.
Logan said he was asked July 1 to submit his resignation by the end of the day and that he complied. “I have enjoyed the past 21 months of service to the people of the SBC through the VP role and that of convention manager,” the statement said. “I am grateful to God, my staff, and countless volunteers for a successful annual meeting just two weeks ago.”
The Executive Committee elected Logan, 42, to his position unanimously in September 2007. He succeeded Jack Wilkerson, who retired in October 2007 after 14 years in the post.
Before that, Logan worked seven years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, first as assistant director of admissions, later as director of development and finally as senior vice president for institutional advancement for three years.
Logan worked in the insurance business before entering the ministry in 1998. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration and in 2001 earned the master-of-divinity degree in evangelism and church growth from Southern Seminary’s Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.
He worked as a youth minister and an assistant pastor at two Kentucky churches and was ordained to the ministry by Highview Baptist Church in Louisville in 2005.
Logan and his wife, Helen, have three sons. He said in his statement that he wishes God’s blessing on the Executive Committee and is trusting the Lord for “protection of and provision for” his family.
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Bob Allen is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press.