A brief look at the four new vice presidents of NAMB

North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees approved four new vice presidents during a trustee meeting Feb. 9.

• Larry Wynn, 57, senior pastor of Hebron Baptist Church, Dacula, Ga., for the past 33 years, is NAMB’s vice president of evangelism. He will work closely with state convention partners to lead and equip Southern Baptists in the area of evangelism, with a special emphasis on “GPS: God’s Plan for Sharing.”

While at Hebron Baptist, Wynn and the church have recorded more than 10,000 baptisms. Wynn earned a bachelor of arts degree, majoring in psychology and minoring in religion, at Mercer University in Atlanta in 1977. He also is an alumnus of Luther Rice Seminary in Lithonia, Ga.

• Jeff Christopherson, 46, is NAMB’s vice president of the Canadian Region, based in Toronto, as part of a regional restructuring.

A native Canadian, he has served since 2009 as national church starting team leader for the Canadian National Baptist Convention in Oakville, Ontario. He has worked as a church planter in various areas in Canada since 1995. He also served as senior pastor of First Baptist Church, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, from 1989 to 1995.

Christopherson earned a bachelor of arts degree in communications at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., and a master of divinity at Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, Alberta.

• Aaron Coe, 34, is NAMB’s vice president of mobilization, to be based in Alpharetta, Ga.

Coe served from 2003 to 2008 as a NAMB church planting missionary pastor in New York City, where he helped plant the Gallery Church in 2006. In 2008, Coe founded “City Uprising,” mobilizing hundreds of volunteers in the Manhattan area. In 2009, he initiated “SendNYC” for the purpose of mobilizing and equipping people to plant churches in New York City.

• Stephen P. Davis, 61, is NAMB’s vice president of the Midwest Region, to be based in Indianapolis. He has served as executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana since 2003.

Davis earned a bachelor of arts degree at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), a master of divinity degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a doctorate of ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He also holds an honorary doctorate from DBU. (BP)