RICHMOND, Va. — Gannon Sims has been named coordinator assistant for Fresh Expressions, a church revitalization movement coordinated by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board.
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Sims will work closely with Chris Backert, Fresh Expressions coordinator in the U.S., and Ben Jamison, coordinator for Virginia.
Sims holds a bachelor of arts degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a master of divinity degree from Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. He formerly was employed by the U.S. State Department and while there was a member of First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va.
Sims also will assist on a volunteer basis with the Baptist collegiate ministry in the Fredericksburg, Va., area, working with his wife, Carey, who was recently named collegiate minister at the University of Mary Washington.