MILL VALLEY, Calif. — Jeff Iorg, executive director-treasurer of the Northwest Baptist Convention, has been recommended as the seventh president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
The decision was announced following a March 25 meeting in Northern California of the seminary’s presidential search committee and an advisory board appointed by the trustee chairman Gary Black.
Alabama’s Calvin Kelly served on the search committee.
“Golden Gate, like no other seminary the Southern Baptists own and operate, is a missions and church planting laboratory located in the heart of the most unreached section of our entire nation. Jeff Iorg is the man for the job,” said Kelly, pastor of Valleydale Baptist Church, Birmingham. “He understands the seminary’s mission, the context of the West and the balance between scholarship and practice like no other candidate. His heart is for developing leaders for the churches of tomorrow, which is Golden Gate’s reason for existence.”
Iorg has served as the Northwest Convention’s executive director-treasurer since 1995. He was the founding pastor of Greater Gresham Baptist Church in Gresham, Ore., and has served in pastorates in Missouri and Texas.
Since 1990, he has taught as an adjunct preaching, evangelism and leadership instructor at the Golden Gate Seminary’s Pacific Northwest Campus. Iorg is a graduate of Hardin Simmons University (B.A.), Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Min.). He has written numerous articles. He and his wife, Ann, have three children.
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