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Gary Vincent Nelson (January 28, 1953 – January 22, 2024) was a Canadian urban missiologist. [1] Prior to 2010 Nelson served as General Secretary [2] of the Canadian Baptist Ministries. Since 2004 Nelson has been one of the Vice-presidents [3] of the Baptist World Alliance, of which his denomination is a member-body.
Russell M. Nelson has been the president since January 14, 2018. Latter-day Saints consider the church's president to be God's spokesman to the entire world and the highest priesthood authority on earth, with the exclusive right to receive revelations from God on behalf of the entire church or the entire world.
Nelson's father was a reporter for the Deseret News and later became general manager of Gillham Advertising, Utah's earliest advertising agency. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] His parents were not active in the Latter-day Saint faith while he was a youth, but they did send him to Sunday School , [ 13 ] and he was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age 16.
Hunter was born to John William and Nellie Marie Hunter in Boise, Idaho. [4] His father, who was not a Latter-day Saint but joined the church in 1927, would not allow Hunter to be baptized until he was 12; Hunter was ordained to the Aaronic priesthood several months after he turned 12. [5]
Prior to becoming a general authority, Ringwood was a businessman who spent 14 years as a vice president with Huntsman Chemical Corporation, living in Houston, Virginia Beach and Australia. [1] In 2000, he left Huntsman Chemical and returned to Salt Lake City where he served as president of Bear Creek Foods, president of Lofthouse Foods, and ...
Otto Vincent Haleck Jr. (born January 19, 1949) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2011. He is the first person from American Samoa or Samoa to become a general authority of the LDS Church and is also the first non–New Zealander from the Pacific Islands in this position.
Andrew Petter was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1953, and grew up in the adjacent suburb of Oak Bay. [1] [2] His grandfather Ernest Petter was an English industrialist who unsuccessfully ran for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on three occasions before moving to the Vancouver Island town of Comox in 1938; he then lived for a while in Saanich before moving back to the UK in 1954.
Peter M. Johnson (born November 29, 1966) is a general authority seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is the first African-American general authority in church history. [1] Johnson was born and raised in Queens, New York City. [2]