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Several State Conventions Name New Executive Directors in 2021 State Conventions in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Nevada all welcomed new executive directors since early 2021, beginning with Texas in February.
The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) Executive Board voted unanimously to confirm Nathan Lorick as the SBTC’s second executive director Sunday, February 21. Lorick succeeds Jim Richards, who has served as the convention’s executive director since its founding in 1998. Richards announced his retirement in November of 2020. “I never thought it would be possible to be able to follow your hero,” Lorick said. “I am forever changed because of you two (Richards and his wife, June). I still have a lot to learn. You’ll be on speed dial.” For Lorick, who has served as executive director of the Colorado Baptist General Convention since 2017, the new role heralds a return to Texas and the SBTC, where he served as evangelism director from 2012-2017. Prior to that, he served
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in multiple Texas Baptist churches as a student pastor and interim pastor and as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Malakoff and Martin’s Mill Baptist Church. Lorick began his work as SBTC executive director April 1 and Richards will continue in an advisory role through the remainder of 2021. He and his wife Jenna live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with their four children.
Todd Unzicker, chief of staff at The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, was elected executive director-treasurer of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina on May 22, 2021. Unzicker succeeds Milton Hollifield who had held the position for fourteen years before his retirement earlier in 2021.
