NAMB appoints missionaries

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB)—Three missionaries with ties to Florida have been appointed by the North American Mission Board.

CULBRETHS

Craig E. and Gail M. Culbreth serve in Jacksonville, where Craig is director of partnership missions with the Florida Baptist Convention and is responsible for coordinating the state’s resort missions ministries.

A native of Maine, Craig Culbreth is a graduate of Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn., and Luther Rice Seminary, Lithonia, Ga.

For the past seven years, he served in the state convention’s church planting department. Culbreth has served as associate pastor and pastor of churches in Minnesota, Georgia and Florida.

Gail Culbreth, a native of Minnesota, is a certified nursing assistant. The Culbreths have three children: Jonathan, 21; Jeremy, 19; and Joshua, 17.

JONES

Karen M. Jones serves in Tampa, where she is a US/C2 missionary serving as associate ministry evangelism director of Mission Tampa, a ministry of Seminole Heights Baptist Church that seeks to meet the spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs of unchurched people.

A native of Bremen, Ga., Jones is a graduate of State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Ga., and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.