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Transitions for the week of 12.16.16

NewsBarbara Francis  |  December 15, 2016

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly.


STAFF CHANGES

Jill Buckley, concluding her tenure as associate pastor for community ministry at Northminster Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss. She will become executive director of Stewpot Community Services in Jackson.

David Denny, to Drummondtown Baptist Church, Accomac, Va., as pastor.

Matt DuVall, to First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., as senior pastor, effective Jan. 8. Currently he is director of development for McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, Atlanta, Ga.

Steve Fuller, to First Baptist Church, Gastonia, N.C., as pastor. He comes from Northminster Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss., where he was associate pastor for students.

Jeremy Houf, to Bonsack Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va., as youth minister.

Thomas McDonald, to Grundy (Va.) Baptist Church as pastor.

Wesley Spears-Newsome, to Greenwood Forest Baptist Church, Cary, N.C., as associate pastor of community and youth ministry, effective Jan. 3.

Luke Overstreet, to Rosalind Hills Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va., as minister to youth and children. 

ORDINATION

Deborah Lynn, ordained to ministry on Nov. 27 by Glendale Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn. She is a PRN chaplain with St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville.

KUDOS

STAFF ANNIVERSARIES

David Cameron, 15 years as associate pastor of Chatham Heights Baptist Church, Martinsville, Va.

Fred Hardin, 5 years as pastor of Fuller Memorial Baptist Church, Martinsville, Va.


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