Larry Vinson called as new associational missions director for Cleburne Association

CLEBURNE ASSOCIATION

Larry Wayne Vinson is the new associational missions director for Cleburne Baptist Association. Vinson, a native of Oxford, was pastor of Victory Baptist Church, Lanett, from 2001 until his retirement in 2016. He was pastor of Avalon Woods Baptist Church, Seale, from 1993 to 1999 and of Colomokee Baptist Church, Blakely, Georgia, from 1983 to 1993. Vinson served a variety of leadership roles in East Liberty Baptist Association, including Sunday School director, Vacation Bible School director and disaster relief chaplain. Vinson is a graduate of Florida Baptist College and Troy University, where he earned a master of counseling and psychology. While serving bivocationally he worked in mental health at West Central Georgia Regional Hospital and later as day treatment director of New Horizons Behavioral Health, both in Columbus, Georgia. He and his wife, Susan, have three children and two grandchildren.