Sunday School Publishing Board annouces new Executive Director, Dr. Kelly Miller Smith, Jr.

Jan. 13, 2009 - PRLog -- The Corporate Board of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated, with the Reverend John H. Rouse as Chairman, has selected the Reverend Dr. Kelly Miller Smith, Jr. of Knoxville Tennessee to serve as the Executive Director. Dr. Smith, who was previously the Secretary for the Corporate Board of Directors of the Sunday School Publishing Board, assumes the position following the death of the previous Executive Director, the Reverend Dr. Earl L. Thomas in April 2007.
Dr. Smith brings to this position over 30 years of religious and business leadership experience. He currently serves as Pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. Under his leadership, the church has experienced tremendous growth, spiritually, financially, and numerically. His accomplishments include the establishment of two church-related academies, one of which will begin this Fall as a pre-school. He also currently serves as the Vice-President at Large for the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention (TBM&E). His previous experiences include working as the Director of Continuing Education at the American Baptist College in Nashville. He has also been a Community Organizer with Joint Urban Ministries in Atlanta, GA and a Supervisor of Quality Control at the Ford Motor Co. Glass Plant in Nashville.
A Nashville native, Dr. Smith is the son of Dr. Alice Smith Risby and the late Reverend Dr. Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., former pastor of the First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill. A 1976 graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, Dr. Smith later received a Master’s of Divinity Degree from the Morehouse School of Religion of the Interdenominational Theological Center (1983), also in Atlanta. His doctorate is from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH (1993). He is married to the former Sue Hall and they have three children and three grandchildren.

For additional information, please contact Sharanda Smith, media relations, with the Sunday School Publishing Board at 615-256-2480 or visit our website at www.sspbnbc.com

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