Cava elected board president

     The Reverend Ronald S. Cava, of Clinton, N.C., has been elected president of the Campbell University Board of Ministers. The board is an advisory and participatory group which provides insight and assistance in the fulfillment of the university’s mission to provide Christian higher education to worthy students.
     Cava has served as senior minister at Clinton First Baptist Church since June 2002. He is a former pastor of the Rocky Hock Baptist Church in Edenton, N.C., and of Warlick’s Baptist Church in Connelly Springs, N.C. Cava graduated from Campbell University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in religion. He continued his education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1990 with a Master of Divinity. As a student at Campbell and Southeastern, Cava also served as associate pastor or pastor of churches in Wilmington, Sims and Durham.
     In addition to his full-time pastorate, Cava is active in the Eastern Baptist Association, Mainstream Baptist of North Carolina and various other Baptist organizations.
     He is married to the former Shirley Ann Beggs of Yorktown, Va., who will graduate from Campbell’s School of Education in May. They are the parents of four children.