ALEXANDRIA, La. — Lynn Clayton, editor of Louisiana’s Baptist Message, announced May 18 he plans to retire at the end of 2005.
By the time Clayton retires, he will be 65 and will have served more than 27 years as editor of the Baptist state newspaper.
Clayton is the current longest-serving Louisiana Baptist agency executive, as well as the dean of all current state Baptist newspaper editors in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Prior to his coming to Louisiana in 1978, Clayton served as editor of the Baptist newspaper in Kansas.
He has won numerous writing awards and served in various national positions, including chair of the then-Christian Life Commission of the SBC and head of the state newspaper editors association.
A five-person committee has been established to lead in the search for Clayton’s successor. The committee will remain in place until a new editor is nominated and elected.
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