LAKELAND, Fla. (ABP) – Tommy Deal, 49, has been hired as associate coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida.
The Orlando resident is currently director of operations and volunteers for Christian Service Center for Central Florida, a non-profit social-service agency, overseeing 27 staff members and more than 3,000 volunteers.
Deal will begin his duties Jan. 1, said Coordinator Carolyn Anderson.
A graduate of James Madison University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Deal previously served churches in Texas, Georgia and Virginia, including 11 years as minister of education and administration at Mt. Hermon Baptist Church in Danville, Va.
Deal and his wife, Susan, who serves as minister of music at College Park Baptist Church in Orlando, have two sons.