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SouthernBaptists seek to shake membership malaise: Plummeting baptism rates

Southern Baptists opened their annual meeting last month with calls to turn around plummeting baptism rates, even as researchers warned that the nation’s largest Protestant body could lose half its size by mid-century.

“I really do believe that we need revival in the Southern Baptist Convention,” said SBC president Johnny Hunt, a pastor from Woodstock, Georgia. “I believe we need revival in the hearts of our leaders, starting with your president.”