DULUTH, Ga. — The search committee for the next executive director of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board has nominated Thomas Hammond, lead pastor of First Baptist Church, Alpharetta, for the position. The Georgia Baptist Convention’s executive committee plans to vote on the search team’s recommendation during its Sept. 11 meeting. Hammond would succeed J. Robert White who has held the office since January 1993.
As pastor, Hammond has been active in church planting. He also spent 13 years with the North American Mission Board, where he supervised teams for personal evangelism, event evangelism, prayer evangelism and student evangelism. (BP)
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