Alabama’s Burroughs elected CBF moderator-elect

BIRMINGHAM — Colleen Burroughs, co-founder of Passport, Inc., has been elected as moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) for 2010–2011 after which she will assume the role as moderator for 2011–2012. She has served as the state representative for Alabama on the CBF Coordinating Council and as the chair of the CBF finance committee. She will follow Christy McMillin-Goodwin, associate minister at Oakland Baptist Church, Rock Hill, S.C., who is the CBF moderator for 2010–2011.

Burroughs currently serves as vice president of Passport, a Birmingham-based international student ministry she began with her husband, David, while they were at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. She also is a University of Alabama graduate and the founder of Watering Malawi, a ministry advocating long-term solutions to poverty and hunger through access to clean water, sanitation and simple irrigation in the country of Malawi.