Michael Lewis to lead NAMB outreach to pastors

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Florida pastor Michael Lewis is joining the staff of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) to lead efforts to build closer relationships between the entity and pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Lewis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Plant City, Fla., will begin working as NAMB’s executive director for church revitalization and pastoral relations in February. He will be helping churches mobilize for church planting and church revitalization. In addition, he will look for ways to strengthen pastors, their marriages and their ministries throughout the SBC.

Lewis, a southeast Georgia native, graduated from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., with a master of divinity degree. Lewis previously served churches in South Carolina, Georgia and Texas. In 2005, Lewis was awarded an honorary doctorate from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Va.