WASHINGTON — Alan Stanford, director of mission advancement for the Baptist World Alliance, has left the position to fulfill a desire to return to full-time pastoral work. Stanford is pastor of First Baptist Church of Clarendon in Arlington.
Stanford, who was appointed to the position in 2006, previously served the BWA as director of promotion and development.
BWA general secretary Neville Callam lauded him as “an innovator and a gifted networker” and praised his “contribution to the worldwide Baptist movement.” The BWA leader expressed his best wishes to Stanford as he returns to the full-time pastorate.
Don Sewell, former liaison to Baptist bodies for the Baptist General Convention of Texas has been appointed as a consultant to the BWA general secretary in the area of mission advancement.
Among his responsibilities with the BGCT was enlisting Texas Baptists for volunteer positions for causes related to the BWA. Sewell is a member of the Baptist World Aid Committee.
Callam praised Sewell for his “long and well-established commitment to the BWA” and stated that he expected Sewell's “partnership with the organization to be very beneficial.”
Sewell took up his appointment on Sept 1.