Sammy Campbell, of Hoover, has been appointed by the North American Mission Board (NAMB), in partnership with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM), to serve as an African American regional church planting strategist for Birmingham and its surrounding areas.
His role began Aug. 15.
“As we look at our population (in Alabama), about 26 percent is African American, and our commitment is to provide a person with the specific assignment of African-American church-planting strategies to help birth new churches to try to reach more of that particular people group,” said Gary Swafford, director of the office of associational missions and church planting for the SBOM.
This is just the job Campbell is fulfilling through facilitating the start of new churches, developing strategies for implementing a church-planting system and studying and evaluating characteristics and needs of his assigned people group.
Swafford added that although Campbell is working out of a centralized office at Birmingham Baptist Association, he is available for statewide work under the supervision of Ronald Davis, an associate in the SBOM’s associational missions and church planting office.
“Sammy has a unique call in ministry,” Davis said. “He is gifted in static research, along with his commitment to plant churches, which will assist associations in the assigned region to make informed decisions and strategies for starting African-American churches and ministries. We welcome him as a member of our team. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the position as our African-American church planter strategist.”
Campbell previously planted two churches: New Vision Community Church in Adamsville and Metropolitan Outreach Ministries, Washington. He holds a doctorate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and master’s degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and Western Illinois University in Macomb.
Campbell previously served at Birmingham Association, with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, at New Orleans Seminary and with NAMB, as well as in other roles. Campbell also helped lead the effort to develop and implement M-POWER Ministries, a faith-based social services ministry.
He and his wife of 22 years, Joyce, have two children. (TAB)
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