For Alabama Baptists, Reggie Quimby has been a household name of sorts for at least 27 years since he’s been serving in different capacities as a state missionary at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM). But on Jan. 29, Quimby, who currently serves as SBOM’s director of the office of global missions, will retire.
Quimby initially came as a missionary in residence with SBOM’s Brotherhood Department in 1989, having served in Spain with his wife, Karen, through the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board). From there Quimby was invited to serve full-time as associate director of the Brotherhood Department under director Tommy Puckett.
Prior to his time overseas Quimby served as associate pastor and minister to youth at Spring Hill Baptist Church, Mobile. He also served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Gantt, and Jones Chapel Baptist Church, Evergreen, as well as minister to youth at a church in Texas. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mobile and a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Regarding his time at SBOM, Quimby said, “I have appreciated the dedicated leadership at SBOM … and have been greatly blessed by my fellow laborers in Christ who serve throughout our Alabama Baptist churches and associations. I am indebted to each one and most especially to the Lord for allowing me to serve Him and be blessed in ways I never could have imagined.”
Quimby will continue to work in the global missions office as a contract worker after his retirement. He and his wife also plan to travel, he said, working on short-term missions trips and “a little fishing on the side.”
They are members of First Baptist Church, Montgomery, and have three children and eight grandchildren.
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