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British Baptist leader to head U.S. seminary

The head of British Baptists’ mission agency will become the head of an American Baptist seminary, according to the Baptist World Alliance.

Alistair Brown, general director of BMS World Mission since 1996, has been selected to be the 10th president of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago.

The school’s trustees elected Brown in early March, while he attended a BWA meeting in Hawaii.

The former journalist and ordained minister was born near Edinburgh, Scotland. Brown first worked as a church planter in Livingston, and served for more than 10 years as senior pastor at a church in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Announcing the move to the mission board’s staff in Didcot, England, Brown said, “It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life to work for BMS. But nothing in this world is forever and I believe God has called me to something new, and for that reason, and only that reason, I’m willing to leave.”

The new seminary president holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Edinburgh and a master’s degree in business from the Open University.

Full story at Associated Baptist Press News.