Quimby tapped to lead state missions mobilization team

Reggie Quimby was recently named leader of the missions mobilization team for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).
   
Quimby, who assumed the new role April 1, takes the assignment in addition to his position as director of the SBOM office of global partnerships/volunteers in missions, which he has held since 1999.
   
Rick Lance, SBOM executive director, had been acting as team leader since the departure of Ron Madison in September 2004.
   
“From the very beginning of the transition, I was intending to give Reggie this strategic coordinating assignment,” Lance said. “He has the training and background to be the facilitator and coordinator for the missions mobilization team. He also has the temperament for this leadership role.”
   
Quimby is a team player as well as a team leader — the “epitome of a servant leader,” Lance said.
   
Before accepting the team leader assignment, Quimby was already coordinating international disaster relief efforts, On Missions Celebrations and missions partnerships, as well as acting as the SBOM liason in strategizing to reach the “Last Frontier.”
   
Now, he will not only head this office but also lead a team of offices striving toward a common goal — reaching the world through missions efforts. The missions mobilization team is one of four teams at the SBOM that consists of staff members from various offices. The staff members work side by side to fulfill the state board’s Great Commission ministry.
   
“I will be helping the offices that relate to missions mobilization — the offices that have definite assignments and tasks in the missions area,” Quimby said.
   
Quimby’s team consists of the offices of global partnerships/volunteers in missions, Cooperative Program and stewardship development, men’s ministry and associational ministry/church planting. Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union also works with the team.
   
“We will coordinate missions assignments, whether they are local or global,” Quimby said. “We will be mobilizing people, whether it be to go on trips or through education and support through offerings.”
   
Before serving at the SBOM, Quimby and his wife, Karen, served as missionaries to Spain. The two are members of First Baptist Church, Montgomery. (TAB)