State Board elects Kennedy as associate for literacy missions

State Board elects Kennedy as associate for literacy missions

Kristy Kennedy, a member of First Baptist Church, Greenville, has been elected to serve as a state missionary in the office of Associational Missions and Church Planting (AM/CP) at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) effective June 1. She will be an associate for literacy missions and church and community ministries (CCM) in the state under AM/CP director Rick Barnhart. 

Kennedy will work with ministries related to English as a Second Language (ESL), adult reading and writing, tutoring children and youth, Deaf ministry and all aspects of CCM for Alabama Baptists.

Kennedy has a bachelor of arts in Spanish and a master of Hispanic studies from Auburn University. She currently serves as literacy missions strategist/ministry assistant in the AM/CP office.

Her promotion was approved by the SBOM executive committee May 16 in Montgomery. 

(TAB)