October 16, 2000
Porterfield tapped to lead Texas WMU
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Carolyn Porterfield, who has served eight years as associate executive director ofWoman's Missionary Union of Texas, will be nominated by the Texas WMU personnel committee as the mission organization's next executive director-treasurer.
CAROLYN PORTERFIELD
___The personnel committee will recommend Porterfield to the Texas WMU Executive Board at its Oct. 30 meeting. If elected by the board, she would become executive director-treasurer-elect Nov. 6 and then assume full responsibilities as executive director-treasurer March 1, when Joy Fenner retires from the post.
___The personnel committee began its search for a new chief executive last March, according to chairperson Lynette Adam of Cypress.
___"There were many hours of prayer involved as we began to design a desired profile, accept letters of application, interview applicants and then make that final choice," she said. "We believe Carolyn is not only our choice but also God's choice."
___Porterfield, 47, is a native of Colorado and a graduate of Wayland Baptist University in Plainview and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
___Before coming to Texas WMU in 1992, she served as Baptist Young Women specialist for national WMU.
___Previously, she was Baptist Women/Baptist Young Women consultant for Arkansas WMU and served as a missionary journeyman in Kyoto, Japan, with the Southern Baptist Convention's Foreign Mission Board.
___As associate executive director, she has been responsible for church and associational WMU work, including the enlistment and training of associational team equippers, edited church-wide plans for the Week of Prayer for Texas Missions, led numerous conferences and facilitated the Women of Purpose network.
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