The South Carolina Baptist Convention has named Lee Clamp as the new evangelism group director. Clamp will begin his duties Jan. 1.
“Lee will be a great asset to the SCBC staff as well as to our churches as we seek to urgently take the whole gospel to the whole world,” said Jim Austin, SCBC executive director-treasurer.
Clamp“Evangelism is not something we do or an event we plan,” said Clamp. “It is who we are; it is in our very DNA. It should permeate everything we do as a church.
“The Lord has wired me for kingdom ministry, and I am jazzed about the opportunity to be an advocate for the lost and to be a missionary developer in the state.”
Clamp is missional pastor at First Baptist Church, Barnwell. He has served as a transitional and student pastor and as a consultant with the SCBC student ministry group. He is a graduate of Clemson University and earned a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary.
Brancie Stephens, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Aiken, serves as the chairman of the SCBC Executive Board’s administrative committee, which unanimously approved the recommendation of Clamp for the position. “Lee has served in a number of responsible positions in our state over the years, and I think he will do a good job,” Stephens said.
SCBC associate executive director Wayne Terry said Clamp is uniquely prepared to fill the position that will include a strong emphasis on being more engaged with church and associational leaders to improve statewide evangelism. “Lee is going to be a great person to work with on our state staff, primarily because a major part of our unreached population is the younger generation,” Terry said. “He will be an asset as we identify younger generations and cultures and get the gospel into those groups.”
Clamp said there are an estimated 3.6 million people in South Carolina not engaged in a church and who may be lost. South Carolina Baptists baptize around one half of 1 percent of them each year, he added.
“It seems like an impossible task, but it is fun to do the impossible,” Clamp said. “In the journey, we partner with a loving Father whose divine obsession is to seek and to save the lost.
“[I pray] that God will send laborers into the harvest and that South Carolina Baptists might have the privilege of being most of those laborers.”
Clamp and his wife Leisa have two young sons and are expecting a baby in November. – SCBC