Danny Rumple was elected executive director-treasurer of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists by the WVCSB Executive Board at its Sept. 13 meeting at the state office in Scott Depot.
Rumple, who has served for more than a decade in West Virginia after years with the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board, was unanimously recommended by the WVCSB Executive Director Search Team following a season of prayer.
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“God is a missionary God, and we are called to be a missionary people,” Rumple said after the vote. “I am humbled and excited to build on the missionary legacy of West Virginia churches and to see it grow in impact — both across our state and to the nations for Christ.”
Josh Waybright, pastor of Faith Baptist in Mason and chair of the nine-member search team, noted Rumple’s long service in the state. Rumple “has worked closely with our churches, partners, and convention staff, earning the respect of leaders across our state,” Waybright said. “His passion for reaching the lost, equipping churches, and advancing God’s kingdom in West Virginia is evident and inspiring.”
Rumple currently serves as teaching and discipleship pastor at Cross Lanes Baptist Church and as church planting catalyst for NAMB’s Send Network West Virginia, where he has helped build strategies to mobilize pastors and train church planters.
Rumple succeeds Eric Ramsey, who served from 2020 to 2025, and Polk, who has led the convention in an interim capacity since April. He will be the ninth executive director since the WVCSB was constituted in 1970.
Rumple and his wife, Beth, have three children: Caleb, married to Lexi; Joseph; and Anna.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Cleve Persinger and originally published by West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists.
