Parliamentarian Barry McCarty now a Baptist
ATLANTA (BP) -- If Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings were tallied like college or NBA basketball games, Barry McCarty would be the leader in minutes played. In the course of 29 annual meetings, no one has accumulated more platform time in the SBC's annual sessions than the well-known chief parliamentarian. The Atlanta native -- who became a Southern Baptist on Sunday (Aug. 16) and is joining the faculty of an SBC seminary -- has logged some 540 hours on the platform. But that is only a small part of what the convention parliamentarian actually ...
