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A Profile of the
Board of Directors Tony Campolo is a professor of Sociology at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, and is the founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, a collection of ministries that serve at-risk youth in urban America. The author of twenty-six books, his Ph.D. is from Temple University. He is also an ordained minister in the American Baptist Convention and serves as associate pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. He and his wife Peggy have two adult children and four grandchildren. Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler is to missionary education and mission support what Lottie Moon is to mission service. From 1974 until 1989 she served as the fifth executive director of the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union, a missions organization of 1.2 million women, girls, and preschoolers. Educated at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (MRE) and Florida State (AB), she has also ministered as a youth director and as a state GA, YWA, and WMU director. From 1993-1996 she served as a founding member of Global Missions Ministry Group of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Her honors, board memberships, and denominational activities are too numerous to list. In 1989 she married James Crumpler, Sr., pastor of Mount Carmel Baptist in Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty years before retiring in 1992. An author of many articles and books, her best stories however, come from her childhood experiences in Frostbite, Florida. Carolyn Dipboye is unique in many ways. After graduation from Mercer University (B.A.), she completed a B.D. and Ph.D. at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She did her graduate studies under Henlee Barnette and Glenn Stassen, becoming one of very few SBC females to hold a doctorate in Christian Ethics. Her dissertation subject: "Ecclesiastical Structures of Power in the Political Struggle for Human Rights"! Also she has taught at Southern Seminary, Bellarmine College, and Tennessee Wesleyan College. The author of many publications, she also wrote Women of Faith (New Hope Press, 1999). Numerous civic and ecumenical activities occupy her life including workshop leader, volunteer at the Oak Ridge Y Shelter, and Habitat for Humanity to name a few. She and Larry have two adult children. Aubrey H. Ducker, Jr. is an attorney living in Orlando, Florida. He grew up in Chattanooga and Cookeville, Tennessee. After high school he joined the Navy and served as nuclear electrician on the USS George Bancroft. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of Central Florida in journalism and legal studies and graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He established his private law office in 2000; his practice is primarily in Family Law and Elder Law. Aubrey is SS Director at College Park Baptist Church where he and his wife Laurie belong. Fisher Humphreys serves as chair of the Board of Directors and is Professor of Divinity at the Beeson School of Divinity of Sanford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Although he has pastored three churches in Alabama, Illinois, and Mississippi, Dr. Humphreys' main ministry has been as a theologian and teacher. He received a B.A. from Mississippi College, an M.A. from Loyola University, the Master of Letters from Oxford University, and the B.D. and Th.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology for many years. A prolific writer, Fisher has authored nine books, as well as being editor and co-author of four other works. He and Caroline have two children. Darold H. Morgan is well known to Christian Ethics Today readers through his insightful book reviews. Now President Emeritus of the Annuity Board of the SBC, he served as CEO of the Board from 1972 until 1990. He has pastored several churches in Alabama and Texas, including Cliff Temple BC of Dallas 1966-1971. Dr. Morgan has served as a distinguished professor at Beeson Divinity School and Dallas Baptist University. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (from whom he received his Th.M. and Th.D. degrees) and from Hardin Simmons University (from whom he received B.A. and Doctor of Laws degrees). He and his wife Elizabeth have three children and are members of First Baptist of Richardson, Texas. David Sapp is pastor of the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta and was a member of the previous Board. After completing his M. Div. and Ph. D. degrees at Southern Seminary, he became Director of Organization at the Christian Life Commission of the SBC from 1976-1981. From 1981-1999 he served the FBC of Chamblee, Georgia, and Derbyshire Baptist of Richmond, Virginia. He has also been an Adjunctive Professor at Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, McAfee School of Theology at Mercer, and Candler School of Theology at Emory. He and his wife Linda have twin sons, Benjamin and Matthew. Dr. Philip Wise - Dr. Philip Wise, Senior Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas. Philip is a native of Alabama. He holds degrees from Samford University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds a Th.D. in systematic theology and has done three years of postgraduate study at Oxford University. He taught Christian Ethics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served 3 Alabama Baptist Churches in Selma, Montgomery and Dothan. He accepted the call of Second Baptist Church to become its Senior Pastor in January of 2003. Philip is married to Cynthia, who is a lecturer in American history at South Plains College. They have three adult children: Myra Gorman, Doug and Fisher. They have one Labrador Retriever: Stone. Philip is the chair of the Steering Committee for the 2005 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly and is the First Vice-President of the North American Baptist Fellowship of the Baptist World Alliance. He has co-authored two books: A Dictionary of Doctrinal Terms and Fundamentalism. His hobbies are golf, duck and quail hunting, and retriever training. Updated
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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