British Baptists elect first female as general secretary

Didcot, England — Forty-eight-year-old Lynn Green was elected May 4 as general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB). The first woman to hold the post, she replaces Jonathan Edwards, who steps down in July after seven years. Green assumes office in September.

Green currently serves as regional minister for the Southern Counties Baptist Association, a family of about 150 Baptist churches and one of 13 regional associations that together with 2,150 local churches and six colleges make up the BUGB, Britain’s fourth-largest Christian denomination.