(RNS) The International Pentecostal Holiness Church has elected a longtime evangelism executive to be its next leader.

The Rev. Ronald Carpenter Sr. was chosen on Friday (July 31) by delegates as the denomination’s general superintendent during their General Conference in Greensboro, N.C.

Carpenter has been the executive director of Evangelism USA, a missions ministry of the denomination, for a dozen years. He previously served as the superintendent of the IPHC’s Upper South Carolina Conference. In 2005, he was elected vice chairman of the denomination.

Carpenter succeeds the Rev. James D. Leggett, who was general superintendent for 12 years. The IPHC grew significantly under Leggett’s leadership and now has churches in more than 100 countries and more than 4.2 million members worldwide.

Leggett, chairman of the Pentecostal World Fellowship, will become president of Holmes Bible College in Greenville S.C., the oldest Pentecostal college in the U.S., in September.

The IPHC is based in Oklahoma and was founded in 1911.