Weathersby to be first African-American EC vice president

NASHVILLE — Ken Weathersby will begin April 1 as vice president for convention advancement with the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Executive Committee (EC), the first African-American to hold an EC vice presidential position.

Weathersby most recently served as presidential ambassador for ethnic church relations with the North American Mission Board (NAMB).

Weathersby will work in his newest role to increase ethnic participation and grow relationships with demographic subsets within the SBC such as young ministers and pastors of small churches and megachurches, along with overseeing the EC’s Global Evangelical Relations ministry.

Weathersby in 1999 was the first African-American pastor to hold a full-time associate professorship at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was director of the seminary’s Cecil B. Day Center for Church Planting and director of the Nehemiah Project, which steered seminary graduates into church planting.