Matt Sliger (Ph.D, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as the associate pastor at South Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, the church that mentored him as a newlywed seminary student more than a decade ago. He also teaches at Bethlehem College and Seminary’s Memphis extension. Matt and his wife, Julie, have three children
Jared Moore (PhD, SBTS) has served in pastoral ministry in a Southern Baptist context since 2000. He pastors Cumberland Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, TN. Jared and his, wife, Amber, have four children. He is also the author of 10 Sacred Cows in Christianity That Need to Be Tipped.
John Crotts is senior pastor of Faith Bible Church in Sharpsburg, Georgia. He holds three theological degrees and is the author of several books. John and his wife, Lynn, have four children.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Dave Harvey is president of Sojourn Network, teaching pastor at Summit Church in Fort Myers/Naples, Florida, and founder of AmICalled.com. He is author of several books, including When Sinners Say I Do: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage (Shepherd Press, 2007), and Letting Go: Rugged Love for Wayward Souls (Zondervan, 2016) with Paul…
Boyce (1827-1888) was the first president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He trained for ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Columbia, South Carolina. Boyce taught theology at Furman University before leaving to start a new seminary for southerners. Boyce led and taught at Southern, led a…
Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He is a frequent cultural commentator, an ethicist and theologian by background, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Moore is the author of several books, including Onward:…
David Platt (B.A., A.B.J., University of Georgia; M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) is the President of the International Mission Board and founder of Radical. He previously served at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary as Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor of Expository Preaching and Apologetics, Staff Evangelist at Edgewater Baptist Church in…
Martin grew up in Houston, Texas, and has served in various capacities before coming to Southern Seminary and Boyce College. He has raced cars, worked for NASCAR, ministered to college students in a local church at Texas A&M University, served on staff at The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and served as professor of…
Phil A. Newton planted and has served as pastor of South Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, since 1987. Phil and his wife, Karen, have five children and six grandchildren. He is the author of several books including Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals with Brian Croft (Zondervan), Elders in the Life of the Church with Matt Schmucker…
Since 2005, Sanchez has served as senior pastor of the High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. In addition to training pastors in the United States, Latin America, South America, and Eastern Europe, he is also a council member of The Gospel Coalition and co-founder and president of Coalición por el Evangelio. Juan came to…
Boyce Vocal Band is a traveling worship team from Boyce College, the college at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Boyce Vocal Band consists of nine students from 6 different states who are preparing for ministry at Boyce College. The team sings and plays a wide variety of music from traditional hymns to acappella…
Lexington Road is a traveling worship band from Boyce College. Their desire is to lead students in passionate worship with God-honoring music that is Christ-centered and infused with gospel truth. They feature a variety of worship music styles including prominent worship songs as well as original arrangements of traditional hymns.
Norton Hall Band is a tangible demonstration that our goal and purpose in the Billy Graham School at Southern Seminary is to train pastors who lead worship, not simply musicians or worship leaders. Each member of Norton Hall Band has a pastor’s heart and a desire to promote Christ-centered, biblically guided worship. The band’s purpose…
Afshin Ziafat (M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor of Providence Church in Frisco, Texas. For more than ten years, he has traveled around the world preaching in churches, conferences, and missions. Afshin serves on the Board of Directors for Vertical Bible Study at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He also partners with Elam…
Tabor Laughlin has been serving in China for ten years. He received an M.Div. from Southern Seminary and is now a Ph.D. student in intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is president of a small missions agency in northwest China, writes occasionally at Desiring God and China Source, manages a new blog, and is author of Becoming Native to Win the Natives.
