Updated Friday, May 23, 2008

Jeffery Ginn selected as SBCV's exec

Baptist Press

RICHMOND, Va. - The executive board of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (SBCV) has selected a Richmond-area pastor, Jeffery Ginn, as the state convention's new executive director-treasurer, effective June 2.

Ginn, senior pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Colonial Heights, succeeds Doyle Chauncey, who announced his retirement during the SBCV annual meeting last fall.

Ginn and his wife Nell served as missionaries in Cali, Colombia, with the International Mission Board, where he was a church planter and professor of New Testament and Greek at the International Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to serving at Mount Pleasant, Ginn was director of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary's Northeast Campus in Schenectady, N.Y.

Ginn recently completed a term as an IMB trustee.

Chauncey, Ginn's predecessor, became the SBCV's first executive director-treasurer after the convention was formed in 1996 with 91 churches, since growing to 500-plus churches.

Chauncey will serve as special assistant to Ginn to aid in the transition and he will remain as president of the SBCV's Church Ministry Services and Foundation until May 31, 2009.