Virginia Baptist nominated as BWA president
by Robert Dilday
Friday, July 31, 2009
EDE, Netherlands -- John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance.
If elected at the BWA’s world congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year term to end in 2015. He will succeed David Coffey of Great Britain, who was elected at the BWA’s 2005 congress in Birmingham, England.
“I don’t think one could ever feel more humbled or more privileged at the same time than in a moment like this,” said Upton, who has been executive of the BGAV and its Virginia Baptist Mission Board since 2001. “One of the things I love about the BWA is the diversity we have. In the midst of that diversity, there is this beautiful unity, this colorful unity that we have in Christ.”
