David BlantonUnion County Baptist Association has called David M. Blanton as director of missions, effective Oct. 1.
Blanton previously served as pastor of Southside Baptist Church in Spartanburg. He and his wife Norma also served as missionaries in Ecuador through the International Mission Board for 11 years. Blanton formerly was Baptist collegiate director at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., during the 1980s.
He has trained mission teams and leaders through the missions mobilization group of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
The Blantons have two grown children: a daughter Meghan and her husband Derrick, who are planting a multiethnic church in Spartanburg, and son Matthew and his wife Ashley, who are in seminary in California preparing for international missionary service.