McLaurin grateful for experience he gained as TBMB staffer
Editor’s Note: Former Tennessee Baptist Mission Board staff member Willie McLaurin was tapped as interim president/CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on Feb. 1. Full story here.
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
NASHVILLE — The significance of the timing of his selection as interim president/CEO of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee was not lost on Willie McLaurin.
McLaurin stepped into his new role on the first day of Black History Month. He is the first African American to lead an SBC entity.
McLaurin, vice president for Great Commission relations and mobilization for the EC since late 2019, fills the vacancy created by Ronnie Floyd who stepped down from the position last October.
He spoke of both of his grandfathers, now deceased, who lived in another era and culture. “They would have never been able to do something like this,” he said. [Read more…]