In time, the moderates founded a new organization known as the Baptist General Convention of Missouri (also known as Churchnet).
After the new convention’s first director retired, Hill served one year as an interim director, then became the BGCM’s full-time executive director for 13 years — retiring in April 2017.
“It’s a smaller convention, and all of our staff were, also, serving in local congregations,” he noted, which is how he came to agree to a temporary, interim position as First Baptist’s administrative director — a job he ultimately has held for 7 years, until he retires at the end of the year.
Hill is also a founding member of the Missouri Faith Voices group, and became the organization’s first president.
He’s been active in several other statewide organizations that have worked on advocacy issues, he said, “primarily working on the needs of the most vulnerable in our communities, and I plan to continue to do that in my retirement.”
Also in his retirement, Hill said, he plans to spend more time with his grandchildren and do some writing, “I’ve started several (non-fiction) writing projects that I’ve never really had the opportunity or time to complete.”
