“With great anticipation for the future of missions in North America,” Barry Holcomb, chairman of the North American Mission Board’s trustees, has announced appointment of a presidential search committee and an executive level policy committee.
The search committee, necessitated by the April 17 resignation of NAMB president Bob Reccord, will be chaired by Terry Fox, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Wichita, Kan., and co-chaired by David Crump of Broken Arrow, Okla.
Other NAMB trustees serving on the search committee are Bill Curtis, Florence, S.C.; Ellie Ficken, Montgomery, Ala.; Greg Faulls, Owensboro, Ky.; Barbara McCormick, Tigerville, S.C.; Michael Palmer, Salmon, Idaho; Ryan Palmer, Baltimore, Md.; and Jeff Shirley, Rockwall, Tex.
Larry Thomas, director of missions for the Little Red River Baptist Association in Heber Springs, Ark., will chair the executive level policy committee, and the vice chairman will be Ron Wilson of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Additional members are Reva Daniel, Clinton, Miss.; Mack McCarthick, Lovington, N.M.; Tim Patterson, Jacksonville, Fla.; Paul Pope, Bonne Terre, Mo.; David Thompson, Old Hickory, Tenn.; and, Rob Rogers, Rincon, Ga.
Holcomb said the policy committee “will be tasked with recommending healthy, accountability-focused policies for NAMB’s next executive leader. This group will fulfill the spirit of the recommendations found in the Trustee Task Force Report adopted by the Board March 23, 2006.” – BP