BGCT elects Hardage as executive director

DALLAS — The Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) Executive Board elected David Hardage as executive director, effective Feb. 1.

Hardage — a veteran Texas Baptist pastor, associational leader and seminary development officer — succeeds Randel Everett.

Hardage has served as director of development for Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary since 2007. He was director of Waco Regional Baptist Association from 2004 to 2007.

He served 13 years as pastor of First Baptist Church, Sulphur Springs. Previous pastorates included First Baptist Church, Holliday; First Baptist Church, Blum; and First Baptist Church, Weatherford, Okla.

Hardage has served as chairman of the BGCT State Missions Commission, chairman of the BGCT Missions Funding Committee and trustee at East Texas Baptist University and Latham Springs Camp and Retreat Center. He is a graduate of Baylor University and earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., in 1993.