EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. (ABP) — The executive board of the Baptist Convention of New York elected long-time pastor Terry Robertson as the fifth executive director of the 35-year-old convention. He will succeed J. B. Graham on Graham's retirement Nov. 5.
The convention includes 394 churches in New York, northern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut, representing 25,000 church members. The convention employs 21 people.
The 50-year-old Robertson, senior pastor of Madison (N.J.) Baptist Church, is a former pastor in New York. He moved to the state in 1980 as church planter and pastor of First Baptist Church in Grand Island.
In 1984, the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board) appointed him associational missionary for the Frontier Association in Western New York. He became senior pastor of the Amherst (N.Y.) Baptist Church in 1992 and moved to the Madison church in 2003.
Robertson, elected Oct. 2, has served as the New York representative on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee since 1995, and was on the Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Nominations in 2002. He served on the executive board of the Baptist Convention of New York from 1995 to 1998.
A native of Alabama, Robertson is a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. (1977) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (1979). He also was a pastor in Alabama while attending seminary.
Robertson and his wife, Elizabeth, have three sons.
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