Garvon Golden has served in the Dakotas for 21 years. In addition to his interim position, he presently serves as the Sharing Christ Team Leader, Associate Executive Director, and Southwest Regional Missionary for the Dakota Baptist Convention. Garvon has served as a Pastor, Director of Missions, and is now with the State Convention. Garvon presently lives in Rapid City, SD with his wife Cindy. They have four adult children Anna, Thomas, Lydia and Sam and three grandchildren Payton, Garvon and Adam.  After coming to the State Convention, Garvon helped reinstitute a state wide evangelism conference. He has also played a role in developing a national intentional evangelism ministry for the Sturgis Bike Rally. This ministry has presented the gospel to over 14,000 people with over 3,200 individuals praying to receive Christ in the last four years. Presently, Garvon is leading the Dakota Baptist Convention through involvement in the National Evangelism initiative “God’s Plan for Sharing…every believer sharing…every person hearing” ;which will be a strategy that will encompass the next ten years. Garvon is a graduate of Texas A&M in Commerce, Texas and has a Master of Divinity Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.