Pastor David Platt to serve new role

Pastor David Platt has announced he will be leaving The Church at Brook Hills.

Platt has been with Brook Hills since 2006, but will now serve as the 12th president of the International Mission Board (IMB), the missions entity of Southern Baptist Convention. IMB serves about 40,000 churches and more than 4,800 international missionaries, and is one of the largest ministries of its kind.

Platt released a statement and a video commenting on his transition.“This is not something I saw coming,” Platt said. “I love pastoring The Church at Brook Hills. I love shepherding this local church on mission for the glory of God among the nations and could picture myself doing that for decades to come. At the same time, God has been doing an unusual work in my heart and life. The concept of unreached peoples — of nearly 2 billion people who have never heard the Gospel—is just totally intolerable.”

To view Pastor David Platt’s video, visit brookhills.org/new/davidmessage.htm.