2022 W.D. Powell Missions Lecture Series
April 26, 2022 - Paul Chitwood
Speaker: Paul Chitwood, President, International Mission Board
Address: "Together to the Nations"
Paul Chitwood was elected president of the IMB in November 2018. He previously had served as executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention since 2011. For 18 years prior to that, Chitwood served as the pastor of local churches of varying sizes in Kentucky. During his pastorates, he served as chairman of the International Mission Board's trustees from 2008-10, part of his tenure as an IMB trustee from 2002-10. A native of Jellico, Tenn., Chitwood is a 1992 graduate of Cumberland College and earned the Master of Divinity and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) and a master's degree in nonprofit administration from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He served as a faculty member of SBTS between 2002 and 2018. He and his wife, Michelle, have four children.