A conversation with the new executive director of ACBC on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

I am thrilled this week that Dale Johnson is joining us on the podcast.

For those of you who don't know, in March of this year, the ACBC board elected Dale Johnson to succeed me as the ACBC

executive director. I went to the board last year and told them that I believe that the

Lord was calling me to focus exclusively on my responsibilities at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville,

Florida and to step away from a ministry role at ACBC. And the board asked me to sit on a transition

committee with four other members of the board. And through a series of interviews and a nationwide

search, the Lord led us to Dale Johnson. And I am thrilled at this

selection. I really believe he is the best man to lead our organization going into the future.

I am thrilled to be a supporter of his and to continue to be a supporter of ACBC as it begins to exist under his leadership.

He'll formally take office as the executive director on October 2nd at a formal ceremony at our

meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. So I want to be sure you know you're invited to be there for that special

occasion. On May 1st, he will become an employee of ACBC working as the

executive director elect, and we'll be teaming up on how to make this transition as smooth

and easy as possible for him and for the organization. And so, Dr. Johnson, we are so glad that

you're here. And what I want to do on this podcast, we're going to have

two more interviews with you. But on this podcast, I just want our listeners to hear a little bit about

you and your personal life. So tell us about your family, your wife, your kids, where you live? Thank you, Heath. I really appreciate it.

I'm so glad to be here and to be with you and to even have this conversation is really exciting.

And to think about the position that ACBC is in now and even looking forward to see the ministry grow is just exciting to me as well.

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