Contributors

Richard C. Barcellos is part-time lecturer in New Testament at the Midwest Center for Theological Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, Th.M. from Whitefield Theological Seminary, and is completing his Ph.D dissertation for Whitefield as well. He planted a Reformed Baptist church in Southern California in 1990 and pastored there until July of 2006, when he relocated to Owensboro, KY, to become part of MCTS. He is the Managing Editor of Reformed Baptist Theological Review, author of In Defense of the Decalogue, co-author of A Reformed Baptist Manifesto, and has several published articles in RBTR, Founders Journal, and Table Talk. Professor Barcellos is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society. He has been married to Nanette since 1986. They have five children.

Mark Chanski has labored as a full time Pastor since 1986 in churches in Ohio and Michigan.  He has been Pastor of the Reformed Baptist Church of Holland, Michigan, since 1994.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cornerstone University, and a Master of Divinity degree from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.  He teaches Hermeneutics for the Reformed Baptist Seminary in Easley, SC.  He’s also the author of two books: Manly Dominion, In a Passive-Purple-Four-Ball World; and Womanly Dominion, More than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit.  Both are published by Calvary Press.  Mark is married to his wife Dianne, and has fathered their four sons and one daughter, born 1983 to 1994.

Alan J. Dunn holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio (1975); a Master of Arts in Humanities from Western Kentucky University (1978); and a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts (1982). Pastor Dunn entered the ministry in 1982 and has been the Pastor of Grace Covenant Baptist Church since its inception 1985. He has taught ministerial students as an instructor in the former Trinity Ministerial Academy, Montville, New Jersey. He has also ministered the word in both family and pastors’ conferences in the United States and overseas. He currently resides in Frenchtown, New Jersey with his wife, Patricia and their four children.

Gary Hendrix graduated with a ThB from Piedmont Bible College in 1970 and has labored as a full time pastor at Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Mebane, North Carolina, for the last thirty-nine years.   He is on the Board of The Midwest Center for Theological Studies in Owensboro, KY.  Gary and Sherry are the parents of three married children:  Grant (Erin), Laura (Jeff), and Zane (Jennie Rhyne) and  grandparents to three grandchildren with a fourth due soon.

Steve Marquedant is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Ontario , California.  The church is a founding member of both the SCARBC (Southern California Association of Reformed Baptist Churches) and ARBCA.  Pastor Steve has been married to Becky for 32 years and they have been blessed with four children.

James Renihan (Ph.D.- Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is a Baptist minister, the co-author of A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism, and the academic dean and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido.

Jim Savastio was converted at the age of 14 under the ministry of  Pastor George McDearmon in upstate New York.  He began to train for the ministry at Columbia Bible College (now Columbia International University), SC and then at the Trinity Ministerial Academy in Montville, NJ.  In 1990 Jim was asked to help with a small church planting work in Louisville, KY.  In 1991 the church constituted and Jim was ordained to the ministry.  He is now one of four pastors of  the Reformed Baptist Church of  Louisville. Jim and his wife Becky have been married since 1989 and have three daughters and one son.

Jeff Smith has been a fulltime pastor since 1990 and began ministering in Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, Easley, South Carolina, as a church plant since 1994. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Religion from Gardner Webb College and a Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Kelly have five children, three boys and two girls. The first two born in 1991 (twins) and the last in 2003.

Geoffrey Thomas serves as the pastor of Alfred Place Baptist Church of Aberyswyth, Wales.

Dr. Sam Waldron is one of the pastors of Heritage Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky and the professor of Systematic Theology at Midwest Center for Theological Studies.  He received a B.A. from Cornerstone University, an M.Div. equivalency from Trinity Ministerial Academy, a Th.M. from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  From 1977 to 2001 he was a pastor of the Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids. Dr. Waldron is the author of numerous books including A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, A Reformed Baptist Manifesto, The End Times Made Simple, Baptist Roots in America and To Be Continued?

Dr. James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona.  He is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics.  He has authored or contributed to more than twenty books, including The King James Only Controversy, The Forgotten Trinity, The Potter’s Freedom, and The God Who Justifies.  He is an accomplished debater, having engaged in more than sixty moderated, public debates with leading proponents of Roman Catholicism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormonism.  He is an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, has been married to Kelli for more than twenty-four years, and has two children, Joshua and Summer.