David Pierce, pastor of Belhaven Missionary Baptist in Belhaven, will nominate Robert Pochek as vice-president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s (BSC) Pastor’s Conference during the 2013 conference in November.
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Pochek and his wife Susan have been married 24 years. They have two children, David, 22, and Jessica, 18. He is a native of Fairview Heights, Ill., where he grew up attending Gateway Baptist Church. He answered the call to vocational ministry at the age of 16.
Pochek has been the senior pastor of Raleigh Road Baptist Church in Wilson since July 2009. He has served in ministry positions in Missouri and Illinois during his 19 years of ministry.
Pochek holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Mo., as well as a master of divinity degree and a doctor of philosophy degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. In June 2000 he served on the Committee on Committees at the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla.