By Jeff Huett

DECATUR, Ga. – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced this week that its longest-tenured staff member will retire at the end of the year. 

For more than 30 years of CBF’s 33-year history, Becky Hall has served in a variety of staff roles, including global missions finance and administration manager, prior to her current role.  
 
Since 2020, Hall has served as CBF’s associate coordinator for operations. In that role, she leads the daily operations of the Fellowship in the areas of finance/accounting, budget development, human resources, information technology, data management and office functioning. 

Hall is best known, however, for her deep connections with her staff colleagues, CBF’s field personnel and constituents. She said she is grateful to have had the opportunity “to serve and be of service” to the CBF staff and field personnel for the past 30 years. 

“As I have reflected on the past, some of my fondest memories are of visiting field personnel and seeing what God was doing around the world and knowing that, in some small way, I was part of their work,” Hall said. “I believe God called me to CBF, and in following that calling, I didn’t just find employment, I found a home and family.”   

Connie McNeill, a member of the CBF Governing Board and associate pastor of administration and discipleship at Second Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo., is a former CBF staff member and worked with Hall for years. She commented that Hall will leave an “enduring legacy of work and spirit at CBF.” 

“Her competencies and skills were learned and honed throughout her years of service,” McNeill said. “Her spirit and passion for CBF, especially field personnel, was deep-seated and indigenous. She has served in an exemplary way in her every capacity at CBF, and she will be missed literally around the globe. May God continue to guide her in all the ways she wanders and wonders in God’s will for her future days.” 

Paul Baxley, CBF’s executive coordinator, said Hall has “given generously and sacrificially of her gifts, her time, her energy and her deep faith toward the thriving of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.”  

“In so many ways, she is the heart of our staff and an embodiment of what is best about us,” Baxley said. “She has seen our Fellowship from our very earliest years and has done exceptional work as Associate Coordinator of Operations. I have counted it a privilege and honor to serve with her. We offer thanks to God and to her for her years of faithful and beautiful service. We will miss her deeply, but we wish her nothing but blessing and joy as she embarks on a new chapter of her life.”  

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CBF is a Christian network that helps people put their faith to practice through ministry efforts, global missions and a broad community of support. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.