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6:00 am
Mon June 18, 2012

New Orleans Pastor Set To Be First African-American President of Southern Baptist Convention

Credit Heather Pendergraft / Southern Baptist Convention
The Rev. Fred Luter of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
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The pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church is poised this week to become the first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His career as a church pastor was not something he imagined as a child.

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