David Tolliver named Missouri executive director

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — David Tolliver, who served as interim executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) for the past 22 months, has been named the new executive director.

The MBC executive board voted overwhelmingly to call Tolliver during a meeting Feb. 3.

Tolliver, 58, joined the state convention staff in 2005 as Cooperative Program specialist and an associate executive director to David Clippard, whom the board fired in 2007.

A pastor for nearly 20 years before coming to the MBC staff, Tolliver holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dallas Baptist University and master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.