North Carolina Baptists’ three elected officers all indicate they will be candidates for re-election at the Nov. 8-10 annual meeting.

President Ed Yount has been pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church in Conover for 18 years. He has an extensive background in state and national Baptist leadership. He chaired the Giving Plans study Committee in 2008 that recommended a return to a single Cooperative Program giving plan among North Carolina Baptist churches, which has been in effect since Jan. 1.

Yount is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Mark Harris, first vice president, is pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte five years and is a current member of the Biblical Recorder board of directors. He has been board chair at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Second vice president C. J. Bordeaux, pastor of Gorman Baptist Church in Durham, once a vocal critic of the Baptist State Convention, said his service on the Board of Directors 1999-2003 educated him.

“We’re doing a lot of good things as North Carolina Baptists,” he said last year. “We’ve got a good state, and I enjoy being involved.”