New Minnesota-Wisconsin exec named

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention welcomed its new executive director, Leo Endel, May 6.

Endel, an Iowa pastor, was unanimously elected to the position by the convention’s executive board April 6 in Rochester, Minn.

Among the qualities Endel brings to the position are a love for pastors and a passion for church planting, especially in communities that don’t have an evangelical witness.

Endel and his wife, Sara, have two daughters, Rachel, 12, and Lydia, 10. Sara Endel has home-schooled the girls, taught math in high school and college, and directed the Upward Basketball program their church sponsored as an evangelistic outreach in Sioux City.