NASHVILLE — An Arkansas pastor has become chairman of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) after the resignation of a retired Indiana minister who was leading the Southern Baptist entity’s trustee board.
The new chairman, Richard D. Piles, pastor of First Baptist Church, Camden, Ark., circulated an email notice May 21 of the change in trustee leadership. Piles had been serving as the ERLC vice chairman.
The former ERLC trustee chairman, Steve Faith, a retired pastor and director of missions from New Albany, Ind., resigned from the trustee board, citing “his desire to commit more of his time and energy toward the local church where he is a member as they are currently without a pastor,” Piles stated in an email.
Both Piles and Faith were elected to their ERLC leadership
positions during the trustees’ September 2011 meeting in Nashville.
Other members of the ERLC executive committee are Donald L. Mason, a Georgia layman; Stephen W. Long, a director of missions in Ohio; Christopher L. Slaughter, a West Virginia layman; and Stephen G. Veteto, a Colorado seminary educator.
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