ROUND ROCK—Todd Roberson, president of South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, has been named to succeed Jerry T. Bradley as president of Children At Heart Ministries. Bradley is retiring after 21 years in the position.
Todd L. Roberson
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Roberson has headed South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, based in Beeville, since 2007. He previously served the children’s home as chief operating officer, vice president for development and vice president of business administration.
“Todd Roberson comes to Children at Heart Ministries with the essential tools, credentials and reputation,” said Bill Harrison, chair of the Round Rock-based ministries’ board of trustees. “He also comes with attributes important to lead this ministry—a man who listens to God, a man who loves and involves his family in major life decisions, and a man who has compassion for hurting children and families.
Linda Beebe, chair of the president search committee for Children at Heart Ministries, added, “His experience in the child care field, along with his management style and warm rapport, will be a good fit for this critically important position.”
Bradley, who announced in March his Dec. 31 retirement, expressed confidence in his successor.
“Without a doubt, I feel that Todd Roberson is the person to which I can transfer my responsibility and know that under God’s direction, Todd will be the servant that will continue this great ministry as it serves children and strengthens families,” he said.
Roberson noted the mixed emotions he and his family feel about moving from South Texas Children’s Home Ministries.
“After 19 years, we are seriously invested in the children, staff and programs of STCHM. However, it is with a great sense of God’s moving in our hearts and lives that we believe God has called us to this point and we step forward by faith to this new point of service,” he said.
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John Weber, chairman of the South Texas Children’s Home Ministries board, commended Roberson for his 19 years service to the child care ministry in multiple executive roles.
“In each position, he has poured his entire heart, soul and considerable talents into the task. He has exuded confidence and compassion, understanding and discernment. He has led us through tragic events and happy times with the same steadiness that we have come to expect,” Weber said.
“As much as I would like to tell him that he cannot leave, I have told him that it has been my privilege and pleasure to serve as his board chair, that I appreciate everything he has done for South Texas Children’s Home Ministries and the extended STCHM family, and that I will miss him and his family as they move into the next ministry the Lord has for them.”
Weber noted he planned to bring together the board’s executive committee as soon as possible to discuss formation of a search committee.
“Our first priority will be to name an interim president to serve STCHM until we find a president and CEO,” he said.
Roberson, a native of Lubbock who grew up in Lubbock and Houston, holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baylor University and a master of arts in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He and his wife, Jill, have two children, daughter Lindsey, 16, and son Parker, 14. They attend First Baptist Church in Beeville, where Roberson is chairman of deacons and has held other leadership roles.
Children At Heart Ministries includes Texas Baptist Children’s Home in Round Rock, Gracewood in Houston, Miracle Farm in Brenham and STARRY in Round Rock.
South Texas Children’s Home Ministries includes two residential child care programs, near Beeville and near Goliad, family counseling programs in Victoria and Goliad, a Christian Women’s Job Corp program in Corpus Christi and an international mission ministry in the Dominican Republic.
Both South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, established in 1952, and Children At Heart Ministries, established in 1950, are affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
–Compiled from reports by Children at Heart Ministries and South Texas Children’s Home Ministries
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