About Dr. Voddie Baucham
Voddie Baucham is a pastor, professor, author, conference speaker and church planter. He is one of the most sought-after Bible teachers of his generation. He is as comfortable leading a bible study in his home with two or three families as he is preaching before thousands, or lecturing on college campuses. Known as one of the ‘architects’ of the contemporary Family Integrated Church movement, Dr. Baucham is frequently sought out by pastors, professors and church planters working to understand the FIC phenomenon. His book, Family Driven Faith has helped shape the contemporary discussion about family discipleship and family integrated ministry.
FAMILY
He and his wife, Bridget have been married since 1989. They are avid readers, avid travelers, and avid food connoisseurs. They have five children, Jasmine, Trey, Elijah, Asher and Judah. Unable to have more children after Jasmine and Trey, Voddie and Bridget began to pursue the expansion of their family through adoption. They adopted Elijah in 2004, Asher in 2007, and Judah in 2008. They hope to adopt several more children in the coming years. The Bauchams have been committed home educators since 1999.
TRAINING
Houston Baptist University
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
University of Oxford, England
About Brian Borgman
Brian Borgman is founding pastor of Grace Community Church.
FAMILY
Brian has been married to Ariel, the wife of his youth, since 1987. He also has three wonderful children, Ashley, Zachary and Alex.
TRAINING
About Tim Conway
Tim was previously an elder at Community Baptist Church in Elmendorf, Texas before being sent out with eleven other members to form Southside Grace Church, which would later be called Grace Community Church. Tim was the first pastor of Grace Community Church. His desire for the church is:
O Lord, my passion is that we would be an aggressively God-loving, Bible saturated, Spirit-filled, racially diverse church that would seek relentlessly to know and proclaim the excellencies of Christ for the glory of God and the joy of all people. Help us keep our first love, help us strive to obey the great commission to go into all the world boldly preaching the Gospel and making disciples, and help us to search out the needy, the orphans and the widows as Christ Himself instructed us and showed us by His perfect life.
About Don Green
Don was a litigation attorney in Chicago from 1986-1995 before leaving his law practice to attend The Master's Seminary. As an ordained elder atGrace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, Don pastors GraceLife, a group of more than 500 adults. He contributed several articles on New Testament themes to The Master's Seminary Journal while teaching as a faculty associate at the seminary from 1999-2005. He is also the Managing Director of Grace to You, where he oversees the daily operations of John MacArthur's international media and radio ministry.
FAMILY
Don and his wife, Nancy, have been married since 1988 and have six children.
TRAINING
He completed his M.Div. and Th.M. degrees with highest honors.
About Dr. Chuck Betters
Dr. Charles F. Betters has served as Senior Minister of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in Bear, Delaware, since 1986 and is frequently called upon to address church pastors and leadership all across the country. Dr. Betters' previous pastorates include Wissahickon United Methodist Church, Logan United Methodist Church and Red Lion Evangelical Church (Delaware).
Through personal verse by verse study of the scriptures, Chuck embraced the doctrines of the Reformed Faith early in his ministry. Chuck's passion for building a spiritual legacy is reflected in his commitment to preach through the scriptures unapologetically. He tackles hard doctrines and the painful places of life, encouraging listeners that God is not afraid of our questions about the hard places of life.
FAMILY
He has four children with his wife Sharon and twelve grandchildren.
TRAINING
He is a graduate of the University of Delaware and Eastern Baptist Seminary. He earned his Doctoral degree from Covenant Seminary.
About Mark Dever
Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. Since his ordination to the ministry in 1985, Dr. Dever has served on the pastoral staffs of four churches, including a church plant in Massachusetts. Prior to moving to Washington in 1994, Dr. Dever taught for the faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University while serving for two years as an associate pastor of Eden Baptist Church.
Currently, Dr. Dever serves as the president of 9Marks in Washington, D.C. He also teaches periodically at various conferences, speaking everywhere from South Africa to Brazil to the United Kingdom to Alabama. Feeling a deep burden for student ministry, Dr. Dever often addresses student ministry groups at campuses throughout the country, and has taught at a number of seminaries.
About Mark Escalera
“I Corinthians 10:31 says, ‘Whether you eat or drink or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.’ I have tried to make this verse my focus because I believe there is no better life to live than the one in which God gets the glory.”
Pastor Mark, who has pastored in England and the USA, continues, “Our desire is that others will see Christ in us the hope of glory. Our verse-by-verse teaching seeks to help others to learn to be more like Christ today than they were yesterday, and more like Him tomorrow than they are today! Serving and living for Christ is exciting.
Family
Mark and his lovely wife Violet have been married over 19 years and home educate their three active teenage sons, Mark Jr, Trenton, and Sterling, who are a vital part of their ministry. Mark and Violet are also in the process of adopting a 3 year old girl, Abagail.
About Phil Johnson
Phil is the Executive Director of Grace to You. He has been closely associated with John MacArthur since 1981 and edits most of John’s major books. But he may be best known for several popular Web sites he maintains, including The Spurgeon Archive and The Hall of Church History.
FAMILY
Phil and his wife, Darlene, have three adult sons, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, and Jonathan.
TRAINING
Phil has a bachelor's degree in theology from Moody Bible Institute (class of 1975) and was an editor at Moody Press before coming to Grace Community Church. He is an elder at Grace Community Church and pastors the GraceLife fellowship group.
About Dr. Steven Lawson
Dr. Steven J. Lawson is the senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a pastor in Arkansas and Alabama for twenty-five years. Dr. Lawson's pulpit ministry takes him around the world, most recently to Russia, Ukraine, Wales, England, Ireland, Germany, and many conferences in the United States, including The Shepherd's Conference and Resolved at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
FAMILY
Dr. Lawson and his wife, Anne, have three sons, Andrew, James, and John, and a daughter, Grace Anne.
TRAINING
Dr. Lawson is a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Reformed Theological Seminary (D.Min.)
About Dr. John MacArthur
Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969.
Training
John Macarthur attended Bob Jones University before transferring to Los Angeles Pacific College (now Azusa Pacific University). He later obtained his Masters of Divinity from Biola University's Talbot Theological Seminary, in La Mirada, California. He graduated with honors. From 1964 to 1966, he served as an associate pastor at Calvary Bible Church, in Burbank, California and, from 1966 to 1969, as a faculty representative for Talbot Theological Seminary. Then, in 1969, he became the third pastor in the then-short history of the nondenominational Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California. MacArthur received a doctorate from Talbot Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate from Grace Graduate School.
Family
John and his wife, Patricia, have four grown children and fourteen grandchildren.