Dennis Wilkins

• Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms and nursing home services.
• Oversaw administration and management of all areas of ministry.
• Planned and conducted worship services, wrote sermons and worked with key church leaders to carry out church mission.
• Supervised associate pastors and staff leading education, youth, pastoral care, and older adult ministry programs.
• Worked with stewardship to promote responsible biblical stewardship.
• Led programs such as worship, study, fellowship and service opportunities.
• Oversaw daily operations to ensure high levels of productivity.
• Provided spiritual care through visitation, counseling and prayer.
• Raised congregational awareness of needs and contributions of youth and young adults to church life and operations.

Led association pastors in casting a vision for the North Pulaski Baptist Association

Improved relations between North Pulaski Baptist Association and Arkansas Baptist State Convention.

Held Monday pastor conference meetings. Topics varied to provide local pastors with applicable information. Frequently brought in speakers from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.

Created "Mission North Pulaski", where the association planned and led churches in outreach efforts in their respective communities

Worked with individual association churches to diagnose and solve issues

Reviewed and updated job descriptions, not only for employees, but also for the various mission teams of the association.

Established a "Kick Off" meeting, complete with catered dinner, for all association church members each January. The upcoming associational events were presented and members encouraged to participate.

Changed the tone of the annual Fall meeting to be a celebration. This improved attendance.

Encouraged and supported church planting efforts.

Managed a "Summer Missionary" program that employed high school graduates and/or college students to serve associational churches in various summer activities, i.e. Vacation Bible School. The "Summer Missionaries were students who had made a commitment to a career of full time Christian service.

• Oversaw administration and management of all areas of ministry.
• Coordinated and spearheaded programs to increase church members' service throughout community.
• Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms and nursing home services.
• Led programs such as worship, study, fellowship and service opportunities.
• Worked with stewardship to promote responsible biblical stewardship.
• Collaborated with church leadership to plan master calendar of events.
• Planned and conducted worship services, wrote sermons and worked with key church leaders to carry out church mission.
• Increased church attendance by 360%.
• Led building program to increase seating capacity from 125 to 600.
• Led association in baptisms 9 of 11 years.
• Provided crisis response and counseling to church members.

Oversaw the overall development of two retirement communities.

• Sun City Tucson was a 2,500 acre development
• Sun City Hilton Head was a 6,000 acre development.

Oversight included:

• Spearheading cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
• Identifying and solving issues with production, workforce and material sourcing to drive business objectives.
• Overseeing a yearly budget of more than $10,000,000
• Overseeing the building and marketing 600 plus homes per year.
• Created a strategic plan for the company by establishing performance goals and providing methods for reaching milestones.
• Orchestrating positive media coverage as the public face of company.
• Identifing opportunities to improve business process flows and overall departmental productivity.