From the time-warped MBC Pathway (timestamped as Last Published: February 3, 2009 3:25 PM)
Missouri Baptists get new executive director
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)—The man who held the interim title for nearly 22 months, David Tolliver, is the new executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC).
The MBC Executive Board in a special called meeting Feb. 3 voted to call Tolliver 44-4, and Tolliver said he would accept in a Gold Room filled with board members, state convention staff, and visitors. Tolliver, 58, has been serving since May 2005 as an MBC associate executive director.
The executive board action was the culmination of a nationwide search by the 11-member search committee that took nearly 19 months. During that time Tolliver, a fourth-generation Missouri Baptist pastor, was hard at work in the Baptist Building in what turned out to be an extended job interview. Various national candidates besides Tolliver were considered along the way, but he was the only one recommended and ultimately called to succeed David Clippard, who was terminated April 10, 2007, on a 44-7 vote by the board.
Tolliver becomes the 12th man to hold the position of executive director/general superintendent/executive secretary since the 175-year-old convention created that office in 1917. Seven of those leaders served in the Missouri Baptist General Association, which was renamed the MBC in December 1958.
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Lots more to be said later today ...
The New Home of the MARIE O'HARA DONATION DRIVE (previously hosted at someoneskid.keepkidshealthy.com). Emergency meetings of the Missouri Baptist Convention have been requested since September and October 2010 (see the page entitled, Dark Dawn, below). The participation of the administration and governance of Southwest Baptist University and the First Baptist Church of Bolivar, Missouri is also anticipated -- now extended to the Southern Baptist Convention Meeting, June 14-15.
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