Names in the News

The Baptist Convention of New York's executive board has elected Terry M. Robertson as the fifth executive director/treasurer of the 35-year-old convention.

Robertson, 50, senior pastor of Madison (N.J.) Baptist Church, succeeded J.B. Graham on Graham's retirement at the conclusion of the convention's Nov. 4-5 annual meeting in Saddle Brook, N.J.

He received a master of religious education degree from New Orleans Seminary in 1979. He graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., in 1977 with a major in religion.

Robertson's wife, Elizabeth, a native of Atlanta, is a music teacher and an independent Mary Kay Cosmetics consultant.

They have three sons: Nathan, a recent Union University graduate; Todd, a student athlete at the University of Buffalo; and Evan, a ninth-grader.

Messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention made history Oct. 26 when they elected the convention's first Hispanic officer in Joel Medina, bivocational pastor of Iglesia Internacional Las Americas in Carthage.

Medina will serve as second vice president for the coming year.