LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Trennis Henderson, editor of Kentucky's Baptist-affiliated Western Recorder newspaper, has accepted a position as vice president for communications at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark.
His resignation will take effect March 1. The Western Recorder board of directors has elected a search committee to seek his successor.
Henderson, who has edited the Recorder since 1999, has served more than 25 years in Baptist journalism. He previously was editor of the Arkansas Baptist News and managing editor of Missouri's Word & Way.
“It has been an incredible privilege to serve alongside Kentucky Baptists during these eight-plus years,” Henderson said. “Ministering with the Western Recorder staff and board on behalf of Kentucky Baptists has been among the major highlights of my ministry career.”
Linda Polley, outgoing chair of the Western Recorder board of directors, said Henderson “has made Kentucky Baptists proud as his commentary and leadership of the Western Recorder reflected scriptural accountability and an overarching commitment to integrity and fairness.”
Polley, director of administration at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, Ky., said Henderson's “wit and sense of humor add the finishing touch” to his leadership.
“On behalf of the Western Recorder board of directors, I express regret as the paper's loss will be another's gain,” she said.
Ouachita President Rex Horne said he is “delighted” Henderson will join OBU's staff.
“Trennis is well-known in Arkansas and across the nation as an outstanding Christian journalist,” he added. “He is a gifted writer and a highly respected spokesman on matters of faith, ethics and the Christian life.”
Henderson, a 1983 graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, also graduated from the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
A former national president of both the Association of State Baptist Papers and Baptist Communicators Association, he has served since 2000 on the communications committee of the Baptist World Alliance.
Henderson and his wife, Pam, are members of Crestwood (Ky.) Baptist Church, where he is a deacon and she directs the church's weekday preschool ministry. Their two daughters are students at Taylor University in Upland, Ind.
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