THE NBA STAFF
Bob Bickford
Executive Director
bbickford@nashvillebaptists.com
Bob is a passionate church renewal advocate. He has served in a variety of ministry positions, including replanting a church in suburban St. Louis where he pastored for nine years.
He served as the Associate Director of Replant for the North American Mission Board, created a national strategy for church renewal used by Southern Baptist Associations and was the architect of the Resound Network for the Missouri Baptist Convention. He is the author of, Am I a Replanter?, Pathways to Partnership, and the Associational Planting Guide; writes regularly at bobbickford.com; and contributes to other church renewal journals, websites, and training.
He and his wife have three adult children and five grandchildren. They make their home in East Nashville where they are members at Kings Cross.
Brett Boesch
Connections Strategist
bboesch@nashvillebaptists.com
Brett was born on the bayous of South Louisiana. He studied Computer Science at LSU. Geaux Tigers! After graduation he felt called to serve overseas, first in East Africa, then the Middle East and Central Asia. He and his wife, Tina, served for nineteen years overseas. They both did graduate studies at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. He has experience as a youth pastor and an associate pastor in the States.
They moved to Nashville in 2020, and he started with the Nashville Baptist Association in 2021 working with the ethnic churches of the association. He now serves as the Connection Strategist, developing networks of partnerships between the churches. When not eating lunch with our ethnic pastors at some of the best international restaurants in town, you might find him kayaking on Old Hickory in Hendersonville.
Brett, Tina, and their three kids are members of the Church at Woodbine, where they both teach Sunday school and Brett serves as a deacon.
Alicia Darnell
Office Manager
adarnell@nashvillebaptists.com
Alicia was born and raised in the Nashville area, where her first job was formatting, printing, and mailing of physical copies of Baptist Press after school. By the time she joined the NBA staff in 2021, she had worked 12 SBC annual meetings, and spent 2020 “filling in” as secretary at her church.
Alicia and her husband Jared attend Rolling Hills Nashville South, where you can often find them bringing the rhythm on the worship team.