June 11, 2001
BGCT taps former Texas DOM
as associate executive director
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Bill Tinsley, executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention, has been named associate executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___A former Texas Baptist pastor, associational director of missions and church starting consultant, Tinsley will assume his new role as associate to BGCT Executive Director Charles Wade July 1.
___"Bill Tinsley is well known as a man of integrity and a strategic thinker in missions planning," Wade said.
Bill Tinsley
___He praised Tinsley as "a gifted writer and preacher with a great heart for people" and as an experienced administrator.
___"He brings to the work a deep awareness of the priority that Texas Baptists place on church planting and a firm commitment to working with associations in starting churches and in helping congregations be healthy, missional churches," Wade added.
___Tinsley, 54, has served as executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention since 1993 and as that convention's director of operations since 1996. During his tenure in Minnesota-Wisconsin, the convention established a foundation with more than $1 million in managed funds and developed missions partnerships with Baptists in Brazil and Siberia.
___He has served as president of the North Central States Fellowship since 1999 and has held several positions in the Southern Baptist Executive Directors Association.
___Before his time in Minnesota-Wisconsin, Tinsley served seven years as director of missions for Denton Baptist Association and four years with the BGCT in church extension.
___He was the founding pastor of First Baptist Church in The Colony and also was pastor of churches in Franklin and Mexia. He also started new churches in Arlington, Bedford and Denton.
___A native of Corsicana, Tinsley earned an undergraduate degree from Baylor University in Waco and both master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
___He is the author of three books--"Upon This Rock--Dimensions of Church Planting," "Breaking the Mold--Church Planting in the Twenty-first Century" and "The Jesus Encounter."
___He and his wife, Jacqueline, have three children and two grandchildren.
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