Dr. Tony Wolfe is the Associate Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention where he has served churches and church leaders since May 2017. In his 23 years of ministry experience, he has served Southern Baptist churches in Texas and Louisiana as a denominational leader, interim pastor, pastor, worship leader, Christian educator, and pastoral counselor. Tony is passionate about strengthening churches, raising up church leaders, and mobilizing Christ’s people to reach their neighbors and the nations with the gospel. He is personally committed to biblical inerrancy, strategic evangelism, cooperative missions, expositional preaching, and team-based leadership.

Tony holds degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and Lamar University and is currently in the final stages of earning a Ph.D. in Evangelism and Missions from Southwestern, researching confessionalism and cooperation in Baptist history from 1609-1925. He enjoys fishing, reading, writing, and a good LSU Tigers football game in his free time. Tony and Vanessa were married on April 14, 2001, and have two sons: Ethan (20), a youth pastor in Oklahoma and a student at Oklahoma Baptist University, and Aaron (16), completing his junior year in High School.

Dr. Wolfe will begin his role as Executive Director-Treasurer on April 1, 2023.