JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — David Tolliver, who served as interim executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention for the past 22 months, has been has been named the new executive director.
The MBC Executive Board voted overwhelmingly to call Tolliver during a special called meeting on Feb. 3. Tolliver, 58, accepted the position to applause from board members, convention staff and visitors.
The newly elected leader had joined the state convention staff in 2005 as Cooperative Program specialist and an associate executive director to David Clippard, whom the board fired in 2007.
A pastor for nearly 20 years before coming to the MBC staff, Tolliver holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dallas Baptist University, and master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He is a fourth-generation Missouri Baptist pastor. Tolliver and his wife, Myra, have been married for 36 years and have a daughter, Terra Jo; a son, Adam; and two grandchildren.
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Bill Webb is editor of Word & Way.