OSAGE BEACH – On Tuesday, Oct. 28, messengers to the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) voted to elect Ken Parker, pastor of First Baptist Church, Kearney, as first vice president of the MBC.
Tony Preston, professor of pastoral leadership at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, nominated Parker.
“I think he is a well-qualified pastor,” Preston said, “who is committed to and serves faithfully within the contexts of SBC causes, Missouri Baptist Convention causes, local association causes. He is very involved in the veins of cooperation and support that exist within our denomination. … He is a good and godly man, and I think he would do a good job.”