David Ludwig

David began serving our convention in 2004 as a consultant in the area of church health, where he served until September 2013 when he joined our team full-time as the Associate Director of Church Health.

Prior to serving with the BRN, David served the Kentucky Baptist Convention as a contracted consultant, speaking and leading breakouts in the areas of discipleship and Sunday school/small groups. David has also served on the staff of small, medium, and large churches in Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

David is passionate about disciple-making, and equipping pastors and leaders to develop healthy, disciple-making churches. He holds a Master of Arts degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; and a Bachelor of Science degree in religion from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia.

In addition, David has been trained as a Church Consultant by the Society for Church Consulting; has been certified as a Leadership Development Coach by Leader Breakthru and by LifeWay as a Transformational Church Consultant (trained to administer church assessments using their Transformational Church Assessment Tool); has been trained and has served as an Intentional Interim Pastor (Transitional Pastor) and has coached and trained other men to serve in this role; and has received Spiritual Leadership Coach training by Blackaby Ministries International and coach training by the North American Mission Board.

David is a participating member of the National Revitalization Network, which connects him to revitalization resources, ongoing training, and expert revitalization leaders across the SBC.

David and his wife, Sheryl, have four daughters and eight grandchildren (including twins!).