Visiting Preachers

Bro. Angel Farias is a Spanish church planter in Austin, Texas. (www.austinforchrist.com)

Evangelist Benjamin Burks

Evangelist Burks is a Bible school graduate and has worked as an Assistant Pastor, Senior Pastor, and Staff Evangelist. He has been in ministry since 1984, and has watched through the years as family, friends, and acquaintances have had their lives wrecked because of the many addictions that Satan uses to destroy lives. He has seen the destruction up close and from afar, and grew tired of watching lives and families destroyed. God has given to him a burden and a tool to help people who are held captive by their addictions and stubborn habits. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

Director of Children Ministries at Worth Baptist Church

Bro. Brien Deverick is the Dean of Student Care at West Coast Baptist college.

 

Bro. Cory McGuire serves as the Director for Camp Liberty in Oakwood, Texas.  Camp Liberty is ministry dedicated to helping local churches reach, disciple, and minister to teens and juniors.  Cory and his wife, Heidi, are members of Worth Baptist Church.

Bro. Darren Myers works with local churches to captivate the hearts and minds of this generation of Americans to appreciate and preserve our freedom by presenting truth through multimedia presentations called Freedom Encounters.

Traveling in full-time ministry since 1992, Evangelist Doug Wyler and his family are proclaiming the glorious Gospel in evangelistic meetings at Independent, Bible-believing churches across America.

Bro. Isac Rodriguez is the pastor of Iglesia Bautista El Faro in Pasadena, TX.

Bro. Jerry Brewster served as pastor of Galilean Baptist Church from 1998 to 2014.

Bro. Larry Norman is the former Associate Pastor of Worth Baptist Church.  He serverd under Dr. Barber and Dr. Weaver.

Mike Herbster serves as Southland’s Director. He and his wife Amy Herbster both grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. They attended Bible College together and were married in 1996. Mike finished a MA in Pastoral Studies and also has a degree in music. Amy has a degree in music education. They have spent every summer since 1992 in camp ministry. During the fall and spring of the past 13 years, Mike was in full-time evangelism, traveling with his brother Mark in a ministry of preaching and music. God led them to Southland in the summer of 2003 where they led the music and assisted in program and administration.

In the fall of 2008 God led Mike to become the Director of Southland. He continued to travel with his family and lead the camp ministry mostly from the road. In 2014 God has led Mike and Amy to a full time position at Southland Christian Ministries. God has blessed them with 4 children, Micah, Malachi, Michala and Mckenna, who are a vital part of the ministry. 

Bro. Paul Gaymon is the Pastor of Faith Baptist Church on Brown City, MI.

Rich Tozour grew up in southern New Jersey and trusted Christ as his Savior on February 12, 1977 (He was ten years old and had never heard the Gospel prior to that day.). It was Rich’s dad, Richard Tozour, Sr., who led Rich to Christ! Rich graduated from Gloucester County Christian School in 1985 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies at Pensacola Christian College (Pensacola, Florida) in 1989. 

In August of 1993, Rich and Angela joined Eagle Heights Baptist Church in Kansas City. They taught at Eagle Heights Christian School for one year before being sent out by the church into full-time evangelism in June 1994.

Taylor Gillaspie was born and raised in Cleburne, TX. He was brought up in a Christian home and attended public school. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour when he was eight years old at his church. As a teenager, he began distancing himself from God, his parents and his church. At sixteen, he returned to the Lord and began to grow spiritually, serve at his church and witness at his public high school. A year later he was called to preach. Through Bible college and summer ministries God confirmed in his heart the specific call to full-time evangelism and revival work. Today he travels the country preaching the Bible in churches, Christian schools and camps. Taylor and his wife, Jessica, have been married for five years and are sent out of Gospel Light Baptist Church in Rogers, AR.

Bro. Will Berry, a graduate of Heartland Baptist Bible College, currently serves as the Youth Paster at Rochester Hills Baptist Church in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Pastor Bob Wallace grew up in a Christian home in southern New Jersey. At 19 years old, he went forward at a evangelistic crusade to trust Christ as his Savior. After attending a local college to begin training to become a teacher, he felt God's call on his life to become a preacher and enrolled at Bob Jones University, where he received both his bachelors degree and Masters of Divinity. In 1964, he married Betty Richardson and moved to the Chicago suburbs to become the youth pastor at the Oak Forest Baptist Temple. Many of the teens who sat under the ministry of "Pastor Bob" have gone on to become pastors, missionaries, and serve in other full-time Christian ministries. After serving ten years as youth pastor, God directed Pastor Wallace to relocate his family to Dallas, Texas where he would become pastor of the Galilean Baptist Church. He spent over twenty years at Galilean and was instrumental in overseeing the church's move from Oak Cliff to the Dallas suburb of Cedar Hill. In June 1997, God brought Pastor and Betty Wallace to Regency Baptist Church. During the years they have been here, many souls have been saved, families have been reached, and believers have been strengthened in the faith. In May 2012, Pastor Wallace was honored by Crown College with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for faithful Christian service.

Charles Keen is Pastor Emeritus of First Baptist Church/Milford Ohio and the Founding Pastor of Bearing Precious Seed and First Bible International.

Dr. Chesford Carr is an evangelist.

Curtis Hutson (July 10, 1934 – March 5, 1995) was an Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor and editor of The Sword of the Lord (1980-1995).

Dr. Dan Knickerbocker

Dr. David Gibbs III, National Center for Life and Liberty

Dr. Gary Coleman joined the Lavon Drive Baptist Church staff in November of 1964 as Senior Pastor. He currently serves as the Senior Pastor Emeritus.

Dr. Crabb was born and raised in Southeast Michigan. He was raised in a Christian home by his parents, Pastor George and Donna Crabb. He became a believer in the Lord Jesus when he was 13 years of age. He graduated from Christian school education in 1983 and pursued an undergraduate degree in Biology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. During his undergraduate studies the Lord called him to preach. He immediately submitted to that call and started serving the Lord with his father who was the Senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Warren Michigan.

After finishing his undergraduate studies he was accepted in 1986 to Des Moines University – College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa. While obtaining his medical degree he continued to remain active in the local church in teaching and preaching the Bible. He obtained his medical degree in 1990 finishing number one in his class out of 185 students.

He returned to Michigan were he completed a one year internship program followed by a two and a half year residency in Internal Medicine at St. John Oakland Hospital. During the entire time of his training he never forgot about the call of God on his life to preach the truths of the Bible. Dr. Crabb found that God was designing a unique ministry were Dr. Crabb could use the medical field with all of its experiences and analogies in teaching and preaching the Bible and one day reaching the addicted.

After completing his training and becoming a Board Certified Internist, Dr. Crabb entered private practice in the Metro-Detroit area. For the next 14 years Dr. Crabb practiced medicine and assisted his father (and pastor) in the ministry. It was during this time that God lead him to have a specific interest in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Crabb took special courses to further his knowledge in this area of medicine including comprehensive courses that certified him by the Drug Enforcement Agency. This allowed him the ability to treat patients with a medicine called Suboxone. It was also during this time that God lead him to write his first book, “Just Say Know, God’s Answer to Addiction.” (Published by Reformers Unanimous International)

During this same time Dr. Crabb and his father introduced a new ministry to Antioch Baptist Church called Reformers Unanimous International (RU). RU is a faith based addictions program which helps churches reach out to their communities in order to help the addicted and their families.

Through Reformers Unanimous coming to his church Dr. Crabb became acquainted with RU’s Founder and President Steven Curington. God wonderfully developed a friendship between these two men and they began working together to minister to the addicted across our nation and even our world. Dr. Crabb currently practices Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine in Naples, Florida.

He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine and the Christian Medical Dental Association. He continues to work very closely with RU as their Staff Physician and Medical Advisor. Dr. Crabb has authored numerous books on drug addiction, pornography and depression. Dr. Crabb actively travels putting on seminars and teaching and preaching from the Bible regarding the woes of addiction but more importantly the freedom an individual can have from their addiction through the Truth.

 

Evangelist from Joshua, Texas.

Dr. House continues to minister in local Church revivals and evangelistic Crusades all across America.

Dr. Jim Schettler, West Coast Baptist College of Lancaster, CA

Dr. Jonathan Stewart is the President of Norris Bible Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr. Mark Rasmessen is the Vice President of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California.  Dr. Mark Rasmussen has been teaching on the college level for the past thirty years. He has spoken at Educators’ Conferences across our nation. Dr. Rasmussen was raised in a Pastor’s home where he was saved at the age of 5. He is a product of Christian education, having attended Christian school from the first grade through all three of his college degrees. Dr. Rasmussen is currently the Vice President of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, CA, where he and his wife Suza have been serving since 1997. He is the author of 101 Tips for Teaching and co-author of Mentoring and Modeling with Dr. John Goetsch. He and Suza also lead the Antelope Valley Bible Class every week at Lancaster Baptist Church. Dr. Rasmussen has given his life in full time ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

 

Pastor Emeritus of Worth Baptist Church

Dr. Raymond Barber has been in the Gospel ministry for more than sixty years. He pastored Worth Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas for thirty-five years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus. Additionally, Dr. Barber has taught Bible college classes, founded the Independent Baptist Fellowship International and the Norris Bible Baptist Institute. He served as President of the Independent Baptist Fellowship International and the Norris Bible Baptist Institute for twelve years.

Currently is President Emeritus of the IBFI, serves on the Executive Board of the IBFI, and is chancellor of Crown Southwest Norris Seminary. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Sword of the Lord Foundation and the Mt. Abarim Baptist Evangelistic Association.

He is the author of several books, booklets, and pamphlets, among which are: What the Bible Teaches, A Dozen Diamonds from Daniel, Family Portraits, Family Success, Profile of a Preacher, Golden Moments with God, Heaven's Hymnbook.

Barber continues to travel extensively throughout the nation preaching in revival meetings, Bible conferences, mission conferences, Bible colleges, fellowship meetings, and gatherings such as the national Sword of the Lord conference and the national meeting of the Independent Baptist Fellowship International.

Scott Pauley was raised in the mountains of West Virginia. At a young age he came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. As a twelve year old boy God called him to be a preacher. He attended The Crown College in Powell, Tennessee, and upon graduation served in the ministry of the Temple Baptist Church as Director of Student Ministries.

From 2004 to 2015 he served as Vice President of Crown College and an assistant to Pastor Clarence Sexton at the Temple Baptist Church. Dr. Pauley now travels full time in evangelism. His passion is to preach the gospel and he has a burden to influence this generation for Christ. He and his wife Tammy have three children: Morgan, Lauren, and Grant.  You can learn more about his ministry at Enjoying The Journey.

United States Marine and Evangelist

To escape the world around him, he joined the Marine Corps in 1969. After his training, he received orders to serve in southeast Asia. In March of 1971, he was apprehended by the hand of God along an abandoned grassy trail in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. In that moment, engulfed in smoke, fire and holy vengeance, a land mine explosion severed two lower limbs, and placed in a wheelchair for life a young man who was to carry, without legs, a message from God to a nation.

After his call to preach in 1973, and following a year of itinerant evangelistic preaching, Tim Lee pastored for five years in southern Illinois before surrendering to the full-time ministry of evangelism in 1979. The results in the lives of people was almost immediate as the former Marine began to stir and challenge God’s people across the country. People of all ages listened; among them teenagers, the professional person, United States Congressmen and Senators, Governors, Mayors and elected officials. They heard a clear, uncompromising message grounded deep in old fashioned patriotism, righteous living and biblical revival.