Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot serves as ABCNYS Executive Minister. After several years in local church ministry in Kansas and Vermont, he joined the Region staff in 2013. He served as Associate Executive until being called as Executive Minister in June 2025.

Ordained as an American Baptist minister in 2004, Rev Hugenot assists congregations with pastoral transition needs, providing support for churches seeking resources for ministry and mission and other ways of supporting the work of ABCNYS and its local churches.

He resides and works from his home in Albany, NY, with his spouse Kerry Shermer. They maintain a peaceable(?!?) kingdom of three cats and a beagle mix shelter dog.

​Education:

B.A., Ottawa University (Ottawa, KS)
M.A. and M.Div, Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, KS)
Semester of Study, Spurgeon’s College (London, UK)

Denominational service:

​Board member of American Baptist Churches/USA General Board, Board of National Ministries, Board of Educational Ministries, and Committee on Christian Unity, ABC/Central Region, and ABC/Vermont New Hampshire Region.

Commission member, Christian Ethics Commission, Baptist World Alliance

Frequent contributor to Baptist journals and e-publications.