Resident Faculty

The resident faculty consists of full time faculty members having extensive experience in pastoral leadership and academic teaching positions. Mission courses will be taught by resident faculty augmented by adjunct and guest faculty having extensive field experience in Missions/evangelism/apologetics/world religions.
Dr. Frank Gumerlock
Dr. Gary D. Long
Dr. Gary D. Long
University of Missouri at Columbia, B.S., 1959
University of Missouri at Columbia, Graduate Studies in Economics, 1963-1964
Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.M., 1969; Th.D. 1972
Church planter while in military service, 1972-1982
Executive Director, Sovereign Grace Ministries, 1979-2009
U.S. Army Field Artillery (Colonel Retired, 1989)
Author of a number of sovereign grace articles and published books, including:
Definite Atonement; The Doctrine of Salvation; Biblical Law and Ethics: Absolute and Covenantal; Context!
Evangelical Views on the Millennium Examined. Wrote an introductory preface and republished the 1646 edition of
the First London Baptist Confession of Faith with an Appendix by Benjamin Cox also first published in 1646
President of the Faculty; Ex-officio Member of the Board of Directors; Professor of NT Literature &
Exegesis and Biblical, Systematic and Historical Theology
Dr. Frank Gumerlock
Montclair State University, B.A. 1984
University of Colorado, completed coursework in Latin, 1992-1995
New Geneva Theological Seminary, Colorado Springs, completed coursework in New Testament Greek, 1998
Saint Louis University, M.A., 2001; Graduate Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003
Saint Louis University, Ph.D., 2005
18 years experience teaching Bible, theology, history and Latin
Author of several journal articles dealing with writings of Medieval and Renaissance Church Fathers on predestination and eschatology

Professor of Historical, Biblical and Systematic Theology
Dr. Joe W. Kelley
Hardin-Simmons University, B.A. 1973
Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.M. 1978
University of Central Texas, M.S., 1992
Pastor, Killeen Bible Church, Killeen Texas, 1978-2008
Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, D.Min., 2010
Extensively involved in missionary work in India

Professor of NT Literature and Exegesis, Biblical and Systematic Theology
Greg Van Court
Southwestern University, B.A. 1992
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.Div. 2008
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ph.D. candidate 2012
Instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Spring - Fall,
2011