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BWA APPOINTS NEW REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR NORTH AMERICA

George Bullard of South Carolina in the United States has been appointed Baptist World Alliance regional secretary for North
America and elected as general secretary for the North American Baptist Fellowship (NABF).
Bullard assumed his new responsibilities on September 1, and will be a BWA representative to churches, conventions, unions, and
other Baptist organizations in the United States and Canada. He will also have day to day responsibilities for the affairs of the NABF,
one of six regional fellowships of the BWA.
Until his new appointment, Bullard, who is a member of the BWA Commission on Church Leadership, was recording secretary for
NABF, beginning in 2008.
He is currently a ministry partner and strategic coordinator with The Columbia Partnership, a partnership of six religious organization
consultants and coaches, and he served as project director of a Lilly Endowment project on Sustaining Pastoral Excellence.
Bullard held several positions with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, serving as associate executive director-treasurer
from 2003-2006, executive coach for Lake Hickory Learning Communities from 2001-2006, and director of the Hollifield Leadership
Center between 2001 and 2003. He also worked with the former Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and was a
church planter during the 1970s and 1980s.
He has had visiting professorships at several seminaries and theological schools in South Dakota, South Carolina, California,
Kentucky, and in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bullard’s books include Pursuing the Full Kingdom Potential of Your Congregation, Every Congregation Needs a Little Conflict, and
Real Denominations Serve Congregations.
Bullard attended Mars Hill College in North Carolina and holds masters and doctoral degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
He and wife, Betty, have an adult son and daughter.
PHOTO: George Bullard


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BWA OFFICERS
David Coffey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . President
Neville Callam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .General Secretary
BWA EXECUTIVE STAFF
Patsy Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Women
Emmett Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth and Congress
Eron Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications
Paul Montacute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BWAid
Ellen Teague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finance/Administration
Kathe Traynham . . . . . . . . . . . Promotion and Development
Fausto Vasconcelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Evangelism/Research
BWA REGIONAL SECRETARIES
Harrison Olan’g . . . . . . . . . All Africa Baptist Fellowship
Tony Peck . . . . . . . . . . . . . European Baptist Federation
Peter Pinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean Baptist Fellowship
Alberto Prokopchuk . . . . Union of Baptists in Latin America
P. Bonny Resu . . . . . . . . . . Asian Pacific Baptist Federation
George Bullard. . . . . . . . . . North American Baptist Fellowship

COVER
Mass Baptism at Wittlesford, a 19th century British artist’s impression of the baptism of 48
people on a May morning in 1760. Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Archives & Local Studies,
Maynard Collection VIII R58/5/3, by permission of Saffron Walden Museum
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