IGBC Executive Board


The IGBC Executive Board of Directors consists of the Convention’s general officers, pastors, advisors, auxiliary and department heads or their appointees and other members appointed at the President’s discretion. The members of the Executive Board of Directors shall be members of churches within the Convention.

The duty of the Executive Board of Directors is to complete any unfinished business referred to it by the Convention; to fill any vacancies which may occur in the roster between Annual Sessions of the Convention; to enforce the orders of the Convention; and to pass on and recommend all claims against the Convention. During the recess of the Convention, the IGBC Board of Directors are in charge of all business of the Convention.



  • President:   Pastor Michael J. Ross, Sr.

  • 1st Vice President:  Pastor Charles Petty

  • 2nd Vice President: Pastor Nathaniel Purvis

  • 3rd Vice President: Pastor Elwood Stewart

  • General Secretary: Sister Cori Price

  • Corresponding Secretary: Sister LaVerna Beasley

  • Congress of Christian Education President: Pastor Oscar T. Moses

  • Congress of Christian Education Dean: Dr. Kathy Christy

  • Financial Secretary: Deacon Willie Norton

  • Treasurer: Deacon Kenneth Wilder

  • Laymen President: Deacon Wesley Stinson

  • Usher’s President: Sister Shelia Tucker-White

  • Women’s Auxiliary: Sister Betty Sawyer

  • Youth Director: Deacon Frank Price

  • Historian: Brother Mateo D. Lacey

  • Member:  Pastor Corey J. Hodges

  • Member:  Interim Minister/ Pastor Emeritus William Beard

  • Member:  Pastor France A. Davis

  • Member: Pastor Lamar T. Jackson

  • Member: Pastor Robert A. Merrills

  • Member: Pastor Chris Young