Glenn Akins has been named assistant executive director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, effective Jan. 2. His responsibilities will be to serve as the VBMB's staff coordinator and chief information officer and to provide field services to churches and district associations.
Before assuming this position, Akins served on the VBMB's courageous churches team as congregational transformation consultant, and also as the VBMB's chief information officer.
An Oklahoma native, Akins is a graduate of Missouri Baptist College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to serving churches in Missouri and Kentucky, Akins also served on the staffs of the Mecklenburg Baptist Association (currently the Metrolina Baptist Association) in Charlotte, N.C.; the South Carolina Baptist Convention; and the Illinois Baptist State Association, where he served as interim executive director for two years, before coming to the Virginia Baptist Mission Board in 2003. He also worked as a consultant for the SBC's North American Mission Board.