Indiana Baptists name Texan new executive

INDIANAPOLIS — The State Convention of Baptists in Indiana’s executive board has voted unanimously to call Stephen P. Davis, a Texas pastor and Indiana native, as the convention’s next executive director/treasurer.

Davis, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Garland, Texas, since 1994, was recommended by a six-member search committee and elected May 8 during the board’s May 8–9 meeting at Highland Lakes Baptist Camp. Effective May 27, he succeeded Charles Sullivan, who retired after 12 years in the position.

Davis, who grew up in Richmond, Ind., earned his undergraduate degree in 1971 from Dallas Baptist University; a master of divinity degree in 1974 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; and a doctor of ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1981.