RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — James White, a Virginia Baptist employee and former pastor in the state, will become editor of the Religious Herald on June 1.
White, 54, who has been department head for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board empowering leaders team since 2003, was elected May 3 by trustees of the Herald, newsjournal of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.
He will succeed Michael Clingenpeel, who resigned as editor in August 2004 to become pastor of River Road Church, Baptist, in Richmond.
As leader of the empowering leaders team, White has helped provide resources to church leaders and overseen the Mission Board's ministry for church, minister and family health. He also has coordinated the board's process of bringing ministry candidates and churches together.
Earlier, from 1987 to 2002, White was pastor of First Baptist Church in Newport News, Va.
For four years prior to that, he edited The Deacon magazine, a publication of LifeWay Christian Resources (then the Sunday School Board) of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tenn., and served as a specialist in deacon ministry.
He also has served on the staff of Baptist churches in Missouri.
White is a graduate of Wiliam Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and holds master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo.
White and his wife, Connie, have two children and two grandchildren.