FLORENCE—Convention President Andrew Dyer, pastor of London’s Corinth Baptist Church, kicked off the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention by welcoming messengers and quickly getting down to business in announcing three appointments to the KBC Committee on Committees.

The new appointees’ terms will end in 2019. They are:

– Blake Lawyer, pastor of Christ Community Church in Shelbyville, from Shelby Baptist Association in Region 4.

– Ricky Simpson, pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church in Frankfort, from Franklin Baptist Association in Region 5.

– Darryl Cornett, pastor of First Baptist Church of Hazard, from Three Forks Baptist Association in Region 8.

The Committee on Committees’ responsibility is to make nominations for the KBC’s permanent committees.

Other committee members are Joe Bufford (Region 2, Christian County Baptist Association), Richard Carwile (Region 3, Nelson Baptist Association), George Drake (Region 8, Red River Baptist Association), Donnie Patrick (Region 5, Oldham-Trimble Baptist Association), Wes Pinkley (Region 3, Salem Baptist Association), and Jamaal Williams (Region 4, Long Run Baptist Association).

Ex-officio members include KBC Executive Director Paul Chitwood and the new convention president, Bill Langley, pastor of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. (KBC)