By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer
GLENMORA, La. (LBM) – Neil Treme, pastor with Glenmora Baptist Church and a former International Mission Board missionary, will be nominated for the office of second vice president during the Louisiana Baptist Convention 2025 Annual Meeting of church messengers.
Ferran Bertrand, associational mission strategist with Mt. Olive Baptist Association, shared with the Baptist Message, Oct. 21, his intention to make the nomination.
The yearly gathering of Louisiana Baptists is scheduled to be held in the Randolph Riverfront Center, Alexandria, Nov. 11.
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
Bertrand said Treme’s experience as a pastor and missionary will benefit the Convention.
“Brother Neil has a long tenure of service to Southern Baptist,” Bertrand told the Baptist Message. “He has served with the IMB in multiple countries and has worked to prepare new missionaries deploying to countries around the world. Closer to home, Brother Neil is currently serving as pastor of Glenmora Baptist Church in Glenmora. He is an able teacher and preacher of the Word. And, to use his own words, he is always encouraging us to ‘make much of Jesus.’ Brother Neil is an encourager, and I know he will serve and represent Louisiana Baptists well as a part of the leadership team of our convention.”
BY THE NUMBERS
The database of the Annual Church Profile shows that Glenmora Baptist Church gave 10.9 percent of its undesignated gifts through the Cooperative Program to support cooperative missions and ministries this year, amounting to $32,069 from undesignated receipts of $293,917.
Glenmora Baptist Church averaged 145 in Sunday worship service and baptized nine new believers this year.
CANDIDATE’S RESPONSE
Treme told the Baptist Message this is a chance for him to give back to the Convention that has impacted him.
“I am one who has been greatly blessed by the greater SBC and LBC family through various ways such as being equipped through an SBC seminary; supported through the Cooperative Program as an IMB missionary for 21 years of missionary service; further equipped through various LBC related trainings and events; and by being prayed for and encouraged by LBC and local association leadership,” Treme said. “I have been blessed to be a Louisiana Baptist.
“I count it a privilege and honor to be nominated for this position,” he continued. “If elected I would hope to be a voice for the small- to medium-sized church as well as a voice to champion the beauty of cooperating together as Louisiana Baptists for the sake of the Gospel and expansion of the Kingdom of God.”
PERSONAL DATA
Treme is a native of DeQuincy and holds degrees from Criswell College, Dallas, Texas, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.
Treme has been pastor with Glenmora Baptist Church since June 1, 2016. Before that, he served as singles pastor with First Baptist Church, Hialeah, Florida; as well as pastor with Hillsboro Baptist Mission, Broward County, Florida, and Emmanuel Baptist Church, McAlester, Oklahoma.
Additionally, Treme served 21 years with the IMB, including as a church developer and church planter in Mexico and Canada, and he assisted new missionaries preparing for missionary service at the organization’s headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.
Treme and his wife, Leanne (who retired in 2024 as administrative assistant with the LBC communications team), have five adult children and six grandchildren.
