RICHMOND (BP) — The executive board of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia has selected a Richmond-area pastor, Jeffery Ginn, as the state convention's new executive director-treasurer, effective June 2.
Ginn, senior pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Colonial Heights, succeeds Doyle Chauncey, who announced his retirement during the SBCV annual meeting last fall.
Chauncey will serve as special assistant to Ginn to aid in the transition and he will remain as president of the SBCV's Church Ministry Services and Foundation until May 31, 2009.
Ginn and his wife Nell served as missionaries in Cali, Colombia, with the International Mission Board, where he was a church planter and professor of New Testament and Greek at the International Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to serving at Mount Pleasant, Ginn was director of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary's Northeast Campus in Schenectady, N.Y.
Ginn recently completed a term as an IMB trustee.
A native of West Memphis, Ark., Ginn holds an undergraduate degree from Blue Mountain College in Mississippi and for his undergraduate degree and M. Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, which is based in the Memphis area.