Craig Carlisle, director of missions for Etowah Baptist Association and current president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, was re-elected to a second one-year term during the Nov. 13 morning session of the 2024 annual meeting. He ran unopposed.

Carlisle is the first director of missions/associational mission strategist to serve as convention president and has served Etowah Baptist Association since November 2017.

In nominating Carlisle, Derek Allen, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Tillman’s Corner in Mobile, said, “Craig embodies the leadership we need in this moment. Craig sees and is grateful for the unique way God has blessed our family of churches. However, Craig sees this is a moment where we need to recommit ourselves to the Great Commission.

“He will lead us well because he has led us well.”

Carlisle also was instrumental in the launch of a new emphasis on bivocational ministry — Calling Out the Called Alabama (callingoutthecalledal.org), Allen noted. The initiative was introduced during the Nov. 12 afternoon session of the annual meeting.

Carlisle’s ministry journey

Carlisle was ordained to the ministry by Twelfth Street Baptist Church in Gadsden in 1987 and later served as pastor there from 2008 to 2017.

He was pastor of Central Park Baptist Church in Decatur from 1991 to 2008 and pastor of Munford Baptist Church from 1987 to 1991.

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.