After 22 Months It's FINALLY Official! Dr. David Tolliver Named Executive Director of the Missouri Baptist Convention

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 ...

Peacemaker's Ministry on the Agenda for Today's Meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board with Dr. David Tolliver

From the January 29, 2009 MBC Pathway :

Peace Committee continues work, more meetings set

JEFFERSON CITY—The Peace Committee of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) is looking for some guidance from the entity that formed it, the MBC Executive Board, before going ahead with a third-party mediator for what would appear to be a process of biblical reconciliation.

The committee agreed Jan. 15 when it met at the Baptist Building to place two items on the agenda of the Feb. 3 special called meeting of the Executive Board, which is mainly to consider MBC Interim Executive Director David Tolliver for the position of executive director.

The first item is to amend the composition of the committee to include two non-voting, ex-officio members—the executive director, and the chairman of the board’s Administrative Committee, who is Roy Dameron, a retired minister from Concord Baptist Church here.

Also up for a board vote is a Peace Committee request that Johnny Johnson, a Peacemaker Ministries consultant, be secured as an independent contractor for future Peace Committee meetings. This is “in compliance with the spirit” of the mandate of the committee, which is “to work things out in Missouri Baptist life.” ...

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More comments to follow after today's meeting ...