Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists (KNCSB)

Mission board calls Mills as executive-director elect

Bob Mills will become the new KNCSB executive director on Jan. 1, 2010. He will serve as executive-director elect until Peck Lindsay steps down on Dec. 31. With Mills is his wife, Lynne. They have been married 25½ years.

The KNCSB Mission Board voted on Friday, Sept. 4, to call Bob Mills as the new KNCSB executive director, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

Mills will serve as executive-director elect until Peck Lindsay steps down on Dec. 31. Mills is KNCSB director of missions. He came to KNCSB in 1998 from the former Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board). Before that, he held several ministry positions in Kansas.

The search committee for a new KNCSB executive director was formed after the 2008 KNCSB annual meeting when Lindsay announced his plans to step down after nearly 40 years with KNCSB.

After a nine-month search, the committee presented Mills to the Mission Board as its choice to succeed Lindsay.

The board spent more than an hour deliberating in executive session. All non-board members were asked to leave the room. After going back into regular session, board members voted by ballot on whether or not to call Mills. The vote was 40 in favor and 3 against.

Steve Holdaway explained the committee’s nine-month search in a letter to Mission Board members that recommended Mills as the candidate to succeed Lindsay. Holdaway is KNCSB president and served as chairman of the search committee.

“We took this task quite seriously, started our search with a clean slate, and honestly evaluated each candidate based on his own merit.

“After the initial deadline for receiving resumes had expired, we felt that we did not have enough resumes to conduct the most comprehensive search possible. Therefore we extended the deadline and received several more good resumes from qualified candidates from all over the country.

“We then prayed, examined resumes, deliberated, and compared candidates to the qualifications set forth by pastors, directors of missions, and leaders across Kansas and Nebraska.

“Under the Lord’s leadership, we then whittled down the list to just a few candidates and began to check references. We then spoke with these candidates and carried out interviews.

“As this was happening, the Lord began to remove from our consideration good candidates one by one. The result: the Search Committee came to a point of Spirit-led clarity on whom to recommend. We therefore recommend to the Executive Board that they vote to call Dr. Bob Mills as our next Executive Director.”

Holdaway continued, “Bob’s competence, leadership, giftedness, integrity, marriage, family and ministry resume have all been tested and approved on many levels including the Home Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, the KNCSB when he was elected our State Director of Missions in 1998, and now with the current Search Committee.”

After the results of the vote were announced, Mills thanked board members for their confidence in him to serve as the next KNCSB executive director.

Mills told of his desire to see healthy, outward-focused, reproducing churches across Nebraska and Kansas.

Then he introduced his wife, Lynne: “The best thing about me is my dear wife Lynne. We’ve been married 25½ years.”