October 7, 2026
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Adam Mallette, incoming executive director/treasurer of the Nevada Baptist Convention, thanked Georgia Baptist Mission Board employees Wednesday for their partnership in gospel work in the West and challenged them to remain faithful to God’s Word and their calling.
“We don’t do what we do without the work of Georgia Baptists,” Mallette told employees gathered for the Mission Board’s monthly chapel service. “We just don’t do it.”
Mallette is currently lead teaching pastor of King’s Church in Las Vegas, and was unanimously approved Aug. 11 by the Nevada Baptist Convention Executive Board to become the convention’s next executive director/treasurer. His final day at King’s Church will be Oct. 11, and he will begin his new role the following day.
Mallette and his wife, Heather, were in Georgia about six weeks ago for a retreat when news of his selection had just become public. He said Wednesday that they had expected to attend quietly, but the timing of the announcement changed the visit.
“It was in God’s providence that He connected us with you and with your team,” Mallette said. “So thank you for your support and all that you’re doing to bless us in the state.”
Mallette served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, with assignments that included Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He said that he was seven years into what he expected to be a 10-year military career when God redirected his life toward ministry.
In 2012, Mallette and Heather packed their family into a U-Haul and minivan and moved from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas. At the time, their children included a 2-year-old, two 1-year-olds, and a 2-month-old.
“We didn’t know anything about anything,” Mallette said. “We just showed up there, and we were just trusting the Lord. I knew I had the GI Bill, but we didn’t know where we were going to work. We were just trusting that where God calls, He provides. And we have seen that confirmed over and over again.”
In 2019, while serving in Missouri, Mallette and his family joined about 25 others from their church on a mission trip to support a church plant in Nevada. He recounted that as they drove back to the airport, Heather asked him whether he thought God might ever call them to a place like Nevada.
“I knew better than to tell God what I’m not going to do,” Mallette said.
Sixteen months later the family moved to Nevada, though Mallette said it wasn’t to plant a new church, but rather to help revitalize an existing one.
“We’ve spent the last six years in the work of revitalization, trying to breathe life into a 60-year-old church out there that just needed somebody to love on them,” he said. “We feel like the Lord has used all of this in our life and ministry as a boot camp to prepare us for this moment.”
Mallette described Nevada as a frontier mission field and said the state’s churches depend heavily on Southern Baptist cooperation.
“I recognize the Cooperative Program,” he said. “And I try to remind folks out there all the time, you are not alone.”
Mallette encouraged GBMB employees, saying that their work reaches far beyond Georgia.
“I want you to know we are your missionaries to the West,” Mallette said.“When you see Adam and Heather, don’t see us. See the brothers and sisters that are out there toiling right now, laboring in the West.”
Mallette used Psalm 19 to stress the responsibility of every Christian to share the gospel, connecting God’s witness in creation and Scripture to evangelism.
“There is no pathway for the lost except the Word of God through the witness of His people,” he said. “That is our obligation.”
He challenged employees to submit themselves to Scripture rather than decide which parts to accept.
“It was for me either the whole Bible or no Bible,” he said. “I was going to be all in or all out.”
Mallette closed by challenging ministry leaders to pursue holiness and guard the calling God has placed on their lives. He pointed to Saul and Moses, as well as ministry leaders who have fallen through disobedience, and warned that no one is beyond such failure apart from God’s grace.
“Would you commit yourself to holiness as it pertains to continuing to live out the calling that God has placed on your life?” he asked.
He ended by returning to Psalm 19.
“So tether your soul and your calling and all the work that you’re going to do today to the Rock of Ages,” he said.
Following the service, GBMB employees gathered around Mallette and Heather to pray for them. Buck Burch, missions catalyst, led the prayer, asking God to strengthen Mallette for the leadership role ahead and to protect and bless his family.
“I thank You, Father, for the position that You’ve given him so that he might be fruitful in ministry, but also be influential in seeing more churches planted and more churches directed on mission,” Burch prayed.
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