The Director of Missions Search Committee is excited to announce our prospective candidate for GBA’s next leader. Rev. Will Cofield currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Central Baptist Church in York, SC. He is also the Church Growth & Revitalization Strategist for the York Baptist Association. His leadership and skill sets are well-suited to lead GBA into the future.
An official notification letter from GBA 2026 Moderator, Mike Runion, was mailed to your church address on December 15, 2025. This announcement serves as another form of notification to fulfill our bylaws as directed below.
The GBA Bylaws dictate that a Director of Missions must be voted on at either an Annual Meeting or a Special-Called Meeting. Therefore, a Special-Called Meeting of the Greenville Baptist Association is scheduled for Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at City View First Baptist Church. The only item of business will be the presentation of and the vote for a prospective Director of Missions. This meeting will take the place of our regularly scheduled January Executive Committee Meeting. Please plan to stay for a catered lunch following this Special-Called Meeting.
Please find Will’s resume by clicking the button below.
VOTING MESSENGER REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Greenville Baptist Association Bylaws (Article III, Section D and E) state:
Section D: Member churches shall be entitled to send voting messengers to regular and special Association business meetings as follows:
- Three (3) messengers for the first one hundred (100) church members or fraction thereof.
- One (1) additional messenger for each additional one hundred (100) church members or fraction thereof.
- No church shall be entitled to more than fifteen (15) messengers, notwithstanding the above.
Section E: Membership in the Association shall be comprised of:
- The churches which are members of the Association on the date of the adoption of these Bylaws.
- Those churches subsequently admitted according to controlling provisions of the Association’s governing documents and policies.
The allotted messengers listed for each GBA member church is based on 2025 ACP statistical data submitted. You will find the number of allotted Messengers for your church in the registration form. If you have any questions about your church’s allotted number of voting messengers, please contact the GBA Office at (864) 242-4330.
A Meet & Greet Drop-In is scheduled on Friday, January 9, from 10:00 -11:30 a.m. at the GBA Office (4100 East North Street, Greenville, SC 29615). If you would like the opportunity to meet the prospective DOM candidate before the Special-Called Meeting, please take advantage of this event.
