Executive Directory/Treasurer Selection

September 8, 2008

Dear Utah/Idaho Southern Baptists,

I am grateful to our God to be able to introduce you to our new Executive Director/Treasurer, Rob Lee. These past few days the Executive Board of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention (UISBC) met in Salt Lake City at Southeast Baptist Church for our September meeting.

Over this past year, the Administrative Committee desired to seek the face of God concerning the vacancy of the Executive Director/Treasurer. After receiving recommendations and resumes, we continued praying for God to lead. He eventually led us to the recommendation of Rob Lee.

Because of our agreed upon selection process, we presented Rob to the Executive Board of the UISBC for further examination and prayer. On Friday afternoon, September 5, 2008, your Executive Board voted to affirm the recommendation of the Administrative Committee and invited Rob Lee to fill the position of Executive Director/Treasurer.

I invite you to join me in welcoming Rob Lee to this position. Rob is a trusted friend to many and fellow minister with all. If you do not know Rob yet, please take a moment to call him or write him a note of welcome.

I want to use this moment to introduce to you the theme of the 44th annual meeting of the UISBC. I chose Hebrews 13:13, “Let us then go to Him outside the camp” (HCSB) because of the unique expression of the great commission. The church will have to go outside the camp to represent His redemptive work of reconciliation to a watching world. Outside the camp is where Christ suffered. It is not a comfortable place to be. There are many distractions outside the camp. There are sin sick people outside the camp. It is costly to be outside the gate. It is risky and dangerous to be outside the gate.

We must never forget that there is an enemy, angry and real, prowling around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may destroy (1 Peter 5:8). If the end of all things was near for the first century church, how near must the end of all things be today? In comparison to eternity, we barely have enough time to take a breath before the masses of people in the community that God has placed us in will die and spend that eternity in Hell. Baptists of Utah and Idaho, the end of all things is near! Let us then go to Him outside the camp.

Paul Thompson
UISBC president