Two decades ago, when Rick Lance was elected executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM), he said he would do everything he could “to focus the energies and talents and gifts of Alabama Baptists on being the salt of today’s life.”

He said his pledge was to “do my best to uphold the highest degree of integrity as a Christian leader” and devote himself “to helping Alabama Baptists make a difference for Christ in our world.”

And now, on Lance’s 20th anniversary, Tim Cox, current chair of the SBOM personnel committee, said Lance has lived that pledge well. (continued…)

Read the full article from The Alabama Baptist newspaper – http://www.thealabamabaptist.org/lance-marks-20-years-leading-state-board-of-missions/