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By Bob Allen
North Carolina pastor is recovering from injuries received in an accident while returning home from last week’s meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council.
Roger Gilbert, pastor of First Baptist Church in Mount Airy, N.C., suffered six broken ribs and lung damage when his car was rear-ended by another vehicle on Interstate 74 near White Plains, N.C., Friday night. The other driver, Matthew David Mickey, 32, of Winston-Salem, N.C., was charged with driving drunk.
According to the Mount Airy News, Gilbert was on his way home from the Feb. 23-24 Coordinating Council meeting at First Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga. One of seven members of the group representing North Carolina, Gilbert was elected last year to a term that ends in 2014.
The report said the pastor was originally treated in intensive care at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C., but allowed to go home on Monday. He said he is still in a lot of pain and is taking the week off from work to heal.