Several years ago, the board of directors of the Nashville Baptist Association embarked on the task of refreshing the vision of the local association. As part of the process, the board targeted four strategic areas that would focus our work as an association:

Connections: Bringing together leaders, resources, and missional strategies in partnership between churches.
Leaders: Caring for our pastors and ministry staff members.
Planting: Assisting in birthing new churches around our city.
Revitalization: Helping existing churches navigate their journey forward.

By God's grace, we are continuing to make progress together in each of these areas, and part of that progress means expanding the full time staff of the association. Though Brett Boesch has been a part-time staff member of the NBA for some time, we are happy that he has agreed to join the team in a full time capacity as our Connections Strategist.

As the Connections Strategist, Brett will continue to build the networks of pastors and other church leaders throughout Middle Tennessee. These networks exist so that every church leader has the opportunity to build relationships with those who are focused on their same area of ministry. He will help to grow networks of children's pastors, Vacation Bible School leaders, discipleship pastors, and others. Brett will also continue to work to connect international churches with the rest of the NBA forging mutually beneficial relationships between those congregations. He is daily working to identify needs and opportunities within the association and connect those needs and opportunities together so that the kingdom will expand within our city.

We are excited for Brett to continue to deeply know and understand the congregations of the Nashville Baptist Association as we, together, help churches help other churches.

Michael Kelley
Executive Director