Stories tagged with: mississippi baptist convention board

• Shawn Parker named Mississippi Baptist executive director

  by William H. Perkins Jr., posted Monday, December 23, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  William H. Perkins Jr.

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Shawn Parker, pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbus, Miss., was unanimously called on Dec. 19 by the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) to succeed longtime Executive Director-Treasurer Jim Futral, who will formally retire at the end of February after more than 21 years of service.

  Parker will begin his duties as Executive Director-Treasurer Elect on Jan. 13 and will become Executive Director-Treasurer on March 1, upon Futral’s retirement. Read More

• Mississippi Baptists say goodbye to Futral

  by William H. Perkins Jr., posted Friday, November 22, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by William H. Perkins Jr.

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Messengers to the 184th annual meeting of the Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC) Oct. 29-30 at First Baptist Church in Jackson elected officers for the coming year, approved the 2020 Cooperative Program budget and bade farewell to Jim Futral, who is retiring from the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) after 21 years as executive director-treasurer.

  Futral, the son, brother, and father of ministers, is a graduate of Baptist-affiliated Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He was recognized for his 21 years of service to the convention board and his decades of pastoring in Mississippi and Texas prior to that. Read More