The Southern Baptist Convention today elected Clint Pressley as its new president during its morning session in Indianapolis.

Pressley, senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., defeated Dan Spencer, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Sevierville, Tenn., in a second runoff, 56% to 44%.

Pressley became senior pastor of Mobile’s Dauphin Way Baptist Church in 2004. In 2010, he became co-pastor at Hickory Grove and was installed as senior pastor in 2011. He previously served as first vice president of the convention in 2014 and 2015. His church has an average attendance of about 2,600.

Pressley, a Charlotte native, graduated from Wofford College, has a master of divinity degree from New Orleans Seminary and a doctor of ministry degree from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

A volunteer at Pressley’s church was arrested last month after church leaders learned he had been accused of sexual abuse by a student at the church’s school, according to MinistryWatch.

“Administration officials immediately reported this disclosure to Child Protective Services, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police were dispatched to begin an investigation,” Pressley told church members in a letter dated in early May.

The convention was also poised this morning to vote on the Law Amendment, which states that a church is in “friendly cooperation” with the convention when it “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”