Mikey Mewborn, vice president of student life at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, recently accepted a call as executive director/treasurer of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention. A friend’s connection, meetings with Montana Baptists and even a few family ski trips helped solidify Mewborn’s heart for the West.
Mewborn, who earned a Ph.D. in practical theology from MABTS in 2014, also is dean of students and chairman of the theology and church history division at the Memphis, Tenn., seminary.
“Mikey brings together the heart of a pastor, the mind of a theologian and the experience of a leader who loves the local church,” said Greg Payton, pastor of The Rock Church in Laurel, Mont., and chairman of the executive director search committee. “Montana Baptists were not simply looking for someone to fill a position. We were asking God to give us a leader who would love our pastors, strengthen our churches and help us reach Montana with the Gospel. We believe God has answered that prayer.”
Mewborn follows Barrett Duke, previously a vice president at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Duke served nine years as Montana’s executive director and retired to Maryland last year.
26 years of ministry
Now 47, Mewborn has been in ministry for 26 years, with stints in children, youth and college ministries and served 18 years in Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee pastorates prior to joining the faculty at Mid-America Seminary in 2018. There he taught undergraduate and master’s level courses in systematic theology, biblical preaching, pastoral ministry, leadership development, church ministry, history of the Baptists, and religion in the public square.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Karen Willoughby and originally published by Baptist Press.
