STAFF CHANGES
Caleb Foust, to Black Creek Baptist Church, Mechanicsville, Va., as minister of youth.
Steve Hartsill, resigning as pastor of Five Points Baptist Church, Sylacauga, Ala.
Elaine Heath, to Duke Divinity School, Durham, N.C., as dean. She currently is the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas.
Greg Hunt, to Kirkwood Baptist Church, St. Louis, as interim pastor.
Paul Marine, to Sunset Hills Baptist Church, Omaha, Neb., as pastor.
Nathan T. Morton, to Elizabethtown (N.C.) Baptist Church as senior pastor. He comes from the pastorate of Burgaw (N.C.) Baptist Church.
Jeff Robie, now serving as full-time pastor of Bow Lake Freewill Baptist Church, Stafford, N.H.
Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, to William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., as president, effective July 1. She is dean of University College at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where she oversees graduate and adult education at four campuses.
Gene Wilder, now serving as interim field coordinator for the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. He was senior minister of First Baptist Church, Johnson City, Tenn., from 2002 until his retirement in 2015.
ORDINATION
Denise Lynn Bell, ordained to ministry on March 6. She is pastor of Parma Baptist Church, Spenceport, N.Y.
DEATHS
Hugh A. Burlington Jr., 71, died Feb. 25 in Cary, N.C. He had served on staff of Dunwoody Baptist Church, Atlanta; as Baptist campus minister in Spartanburg, S.C.; and for the last 22 years of ministry he was senior pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, Greenville, N.C. He is survived by his wife, Vickie; son, Rob; daughter, Jenna; and five grandchildren.
Dwight Clifford Clark, 93, died Jan. 31 in Independence, Mo. He served as pastor in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Michigan. He was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Independence from 1978-88. He retired in 1997 from Warren Woods Baptist Church, Warren, Mich., and retired again in 2009 from Besonia Baptist Church in Kansas City. He is survived by his wife, Ann.
T. Robert Mullinax, 85, died Feb. 26 in Greenville, S.C. He had served as minister in the First Baptist churches of Bunn, St. Paul’s, Cary and Laurinburg, N.C. He also was an administrator of higher education for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and an assistant to the president of Meredith College. He is survived by his wife, Rachel; three sons, Thomas, Marc and John; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
KUDOS
Cynthia Insko, minister to children and spiritual formation at First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., was honored with the 2016 Jack Nash Distinguished Educator Award at CBF’s annual Churchworks conference on Feb. 22.
Lawrence Powers, minister to college students at Oakmont Baptist Church, Greenville, S.C., was honored with the 2016 Young Baptist Leadership Award at CBF’s Churchworks conference on Feb. 22.
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