McGee to head BGCT Ministers Counseling Service
___Dan McGee of Hardin-Simmons University will assume a new post as director of counseling and psychological services for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, effective Jan. 1.
___McGee, director of the graduate program in the Family Psychology Center at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, will succeed Glenn Booth, who is retiring as coordinator of the Ministers Counseling Service.
___In the newly adopted BGCT Executive Board staff structure, counseling and psychological services will be a part of the church health and church growth area, coordinated by Lynn Eckeberger.
___The counseling service will continue to operate from offices at Amberton Tower, 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1160, in Dallas. The facility is separate from the BGCT offices to protect the privacy of clients.
___Before coming to Hardin-Simmons in 1997, McGee was in private practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He was founder of Metro Counseling Associates, and Metro-McGee Associates, where he served as president for 16 years.
___A Georgia native, McGee served several Texas Baptist churches as a pastor, minister of education, youth minister and music minister.
___He is a graduate of Baylor University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Woman's University.
___McGee and his wife, Sandra, own McGee Partners for Marriage Enrichment and are actively involved in leading marriage enrichment events throughout the country.
___They have two married daughters and five grandchildren.
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