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Billy Graham School of MissionsAdmissions and Evangelism • Faculty • Introduction • Masters’ Programs • Doctoral Programs “The Southern Baptist Convention has always been a missions-centered denomination, and the Graham School focuses upon and continues that historic tradition.” Administration Faculty Dean: Zane G. Pratt, M.Div., Ph.D. (candidate) Full Professors Senior Associate Dean: Timothy K. Beougher Adam W. Greenway, Ph.D. Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism Associate Dean, Christian Missions: and Church Growth (1996); Associate M. David Sills, D.Miss., Ph.D. Dean, Evangelism and Church Growth; Associate Dean, Evangelism and Church Growth: Director of Research Doctoral Studies, Timothy K. Beougher, Ph.D. Billy Graham School of Missions and Director of Research Doctoral Studies: Evangelism Timothy K. Beougher, Ph.D. Director of Great Commission Ministries and B.S., Kansas State University; M.Div., Intercultural Programs: Southwestern Baptist Theological M. David Sills, D.Miss., Ph.D. Seminary; Th.M., Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Director of The Dehoney Center for Urban Ministry Training: Prior to coming to Southern, Dr. Beougher served Jeffery K. Walters, Ph.D as the Associate Director of the Billy Graham Institute of Evangelism at Wheaton College, and as Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Wheaton Graduate School. Dean He is the author of Richard Baxter and Conversion, Accounts of a Campus Revival: Wheaton College 1995, Zane G. Pratt Evangelism for a Changing World, Disciplemaking: Dean of the Billy Graham School of Training Leaders to Make Disciples and Overcoming Walls Missions and Evangelism; Associate to Witnessing. He is married to Sharon and they have 4 Professor of Christian Missions (2011) children and 3 grandchildren. B.A., Duke University; M.Div., Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary; Ph.D. Theodore J. Cabal candidate, Southeastern Baptist Professor of Christian Philosophy and Theological Seminary Applied Apologetics (1998) Zane Pratt served as a church B.A., M.A., Dallas Baptist University; planter and pastor in New England and as an Army M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Reserve chaplain before appointment for overseas Theological Seminary service in 1991. He lived and worked in Central Asia from then until 2011, during the last 10 years of which Once an ardent atheist, Dr. Cabal he served in the regional leadership role. He has written was converted while reading the multiple articles in The Theology and Practice of Missions New Testament Gospels. He has planted and pastored published by B&H Academic in the fall of 2011. He is several churches, and served on the faculties of Dallas married to Catherine and they have two children. Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary before coming to Southern Seminary. His interest in helping others to know the truth in Christ has motivated his numerous college campus talks and debates with philosophy professors. In addition to writing journal articles on issues such as postmodernism and the age of the earth controversy, Dr. Cabal is the general editor of The Apologetics Study Bible (2007). SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2012-2013 Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism | page 103 M. David Sills Associate Professors A.P. and Faye Stone Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Zane G. Pratt Anthropology (2003); Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Christian Christian Missions; Director of Great Missions (2011); Dean of the Billy Commission Ministries and Intercultural Graham School of Missions and Programs; Director of the Doctor of Evangelism Missiology program, Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism B.A., Duke University; M.Div., Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary; Ph.D. B.A., Belhaven College; M.Div., New Orleans Baptist candidate, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; D.Miss., Ph.D., Reformed Theological Seminary Theological Seminary Zane Pratt served as a church planter and pastor in Dr. Sills has served in leadership training and seminary New England and as an Army Reserve chaplain before ministry that has taken him around the world over the appointment for overseas service in 1991. He lived and past twenty five years. He has planted and pastored worked in Central Asia from then until 2011, during the churches in both the United States and Ecuador, and last 10 years of which he served in the regional leadership is the author of The Missionary Call and Reaching role. He has written multiple articles in The Theology and and Teaching as well as several books in Spanish and Practice of Missions published by B&H Academic in the numerous articles. He and his wife, Mary, have been fall of 2011. He is married to Catherine and they have two married for over thirty years and have two married children. children and three grandchildren. David and Mary’s children and their spouses are all graduates of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Assistant Professors Troy L. Bush Assistant Professor of Christian T. Vaughn Walker Missions and Urban Ministry (2010) WMU Professor of Christian Ministries (1996) and Professor of Black Church B.A., University of West Florida; M.Div., Studies (1986) Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist B.S., Hampton University; M.S., Theological Seminary Eastern Illinois University; M.Div./C.E., The Southern Baptist Theological Dr. Bush serves at a local church in Seminary; Ph.D., Oregon State one of Atlanta’s most ethnically and socio-economically University diverse communities. He also consults with urban churches, urban church planters, and urban strategists. Dr. Walker is the first African American to join the Previously, he served as the director of church starting faculty. He has over three decades of experience as a in Baltimore, while serving with the North American senior pastor in Missouri and Kentucky. He continues to Mission Board and as the strategy coordinator of Moscow, serve as pastor of the First Gethsemane Baptist Church in Russia, while serving with the International Mission Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Walker is a frequent speaker in Board. He has authored a number of works on urban revivals and at conferences on Black Church leadership, ministry, church planting, and disciple making, and he ministry evangelism, and marriage & family issues among is the author of LYNYTS (Love Your Neighbor. Tell Your other things. He has contributed to numerous journals Story!), a simple process for training ordinary Christians and periodicals. His Black Church Leadership doctoral to make multiplying disciples of their friends, family, and programs are the first in the S. B. C. He and his wife, Dr. neighbors. Cheryl D. Walker, have been married for over thirty years and have three living children (two married) and five grandchildren. page 104 | Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2012-2013 Adam W. Greenway Jeffrey K. Walters Assistant Professor of Evangelism and Assistant Professor of Christian Applied Apologetics (2007); Senior Missions and Urban Ministry (2012); Associate Dean of the Billy Graham Director of the Dehoney Center for School of Missions and Evangelism Urban Ministry Training; Editor, The Southern Baptist Journal of Missions B.A., Samford University; M.Div., and Evangelism Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist B.A., Belmont College; M.A. Auburn Theological Seminary University; M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Dr. Greenway has served as pastor and/or interim pastor of churches in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Before coming to Southern, Dr. Walters served as a and Florida. Active in denominational life, he currently local church pastor then as a church planting strategist serves as President of the Kentucky Baptist Convention with the International Mission Board in Western Europe. and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of LifeWay He is the author of numerous articles on urban missions Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. and evangelism. Dr. Walters and his wife, Melanie, a Dr. Greenway is a member of the Evangelical Theological teacher, have three children: Rachel, Jeffrey Jr., and Society, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the Daniel. International Society of Christian Apologetics, and is President of the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. He is co-editor of Evangelicals Distinguished Professors Engaging Emergent and The Great Commission Kenneth Hemphill Resurgence, and has contributed articles to various books Distinguished Professor of Evangelism and journals. and Church Growth (2005) William D. Henard III B.A., Wake Forest University; Assistant Professor of Evangelism and M.Div., D.Min., The Southern Baptist Church Growth (2007) Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Cambridge University B.A., LL.D. (hon.), Cumberland College (now University of the Cumberlands); Dr. Hemphill is the Founding M.Div., D.Min., Southwestern Baptist Director of the Church Planting and Revitalization Center Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The of North Greenville University. He has served in numerous Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ministry positions since 1968: pastor, interim pastor, youth/education minister, President of Southwestern Dr. Henard has served as President of the Kentucky Baptist Theological Seminary from 1994 to 2003, and Baptist Convention, First Vice-President of the Southern National Strategist for Empowering Kingdom Growth Baptist Convention, and as Chairman of the Board of from 2003-2011. Dr. Hemphill is