Hollifield nominated as N.C. convention’s exec

ASHEBORO, N.C. — Milton A. Hollifield Jr., executive leader for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSC) staff’s missions growth evangelism team, has been nominated to become the convention’s new executive director-treasurer.

A search committee recommended Hollifield to the convention’s executive committee and board of directors Jan. 24. After a closed-door session that morning, the executive committee voted to affirm the search committee’s nomination. The board of directors approved the nomination with no opposition during a session that evening.

The board also voted to empower various BSC committees to prepare for a special called convention to vote on Hollifield’s nomination, with recommendations concerning the time and place to be approved by the executive committee. The search committee had recommended that the meeting be held April 11 at Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C. The executive director-treasurer position became vacant when Jim Royston resigned last July after seven and a half years as executive director-treasurer. Hollifield, 55, has worked for the North Carolina convention for the past 12 and a half years, joining the staff in 1993 as director of the evangelism division. During a restructuring in 1999, he became executive leader of the newly formed missions growth evangelism group. Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute also relates to the convention through the missions growth evangelism group. A native of Swannanoa, N.C., Hollifield is a graduate of Mars Hill (N.C.) College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.