Brandon Porter has been hired as the next associate vice president for convention news for the SBC Executive Committee. In this role, Porter will direct the daily operations of Baptist Press and serve on the leadership team for the SBC EC.
Porter arrives having served the last two years as communications director for the Kentucky Baptist Convention and editor of Kentucky Today.
Porter earned a Bachelor of Arts in broadcasting at Western Kentucky University before going on to work as a television and radio news reporter and anchor in Bowling Green and Birmingham. He also gathered experience in sales, commercial production and as a DJ for Solid Gospel Radio in Nashville.
Porter has been pastor of several churches in Kentucky. He also served two church staffs in Birmingham: as youth pastor at Berney Points Baptist from 1998-99 and as pastor of Ruffner Valley Baptist in 2000.
Porter is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned a master of divinity in 2003, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned a master of theology in biblical counseling in 2015. He and his wife Monica have been married for 24 years and have five children.
Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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