native has been selected as the unanimous choice to lead the Missouri Baptist Convention. David Clippard, 53, has been named for the executive director's post in the state's Baptist convention.

The Rev. David Clippard, executive director of the organization, opened the event by linking Baptist history with the church's mission: to conquer evil. Islam, he said, is an evil encroaching on ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) -- David Clippard, embattled executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was fired April 10 by the convention's Executive Board. Following a second closed-door ...

David Clippard, 38, was retrieved from the water by Marine Unit personnel and pronounced dead at the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in West Englewood.

Tolliver is a fourth-generation Missouri Baptist pastor who led the 600,000 members of the state branch of the Southern Baptist Convention since 2007 when his predecessor, the Rev. David Clippard ...

He had been named as the interim director in 2007, after the board fired his predecessor, the Rev. David Clippard for what an investigative committee at the time called "rumors affecting (Clippard ...