WASHINGTON (ABP) — Executive Board members of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention delayed a vote on affirming the nomination of executive director candidate Ricky Creech March 14 because several of them had not received adequate information prior to the meeting.
Creech addressed the executive board as scheduled. But instead of voting to call him to lead the DC convention staff, they said bylaws required a 10-day advance notice of a vote, with the information on a candidate to be in hand at least that long. The vote has been rescheduled for March 28.
Creech, 47, is a former director of missions for Birmingham (Alabama) Baptist Association and is currently on staff at Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Decatur, Ga.
The District of Columbia Baptist Convention, which dates to 1877, has 153 member churches and it affiliates with the American Baptist Churches USA, Southern Baptist Convention, Progressive National Baptist Convention the Baptist World Alliance.
Its immediate past executive director, Jeffrey Haggray, left to become pastor of First Baptist Church of the City of Washington.
Norman Jameson is reporting and coordinating special projects for ABP on an interim basis. He is former editor of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder.