Categories: Faculty & Staff

Jacob Johnson

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Kylie Murphy

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Keundra Bowen

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Keundra Bowen enrolled as a student at Mid-America in 2020 and began serving as Associate Registrar in 2023. She’s the oldest of six siblings. She likes playing basketball for fun and exercise. She served at a women’s recovery ministry for over four years. She thanks God for His faithfulness and for providing the way to salvation […]

Tony Watts

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Tony has been married to Queenie Watts for 26 years and has four children and two grandchildren. He is retired from the Shelby County Government Division of Corrections after 26 years of service. Tony worked for Clean Memphis as a Sweeps coordinator, and Central Employment Opportunity as Diem site supervisor (CEO). He attended Knoxville and […]

John Charping, PhD

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Dr. John Charping serves as the Chairman of the Missions Department and is an Associate Professor of Missions and Theology. Currently, Dr. Charping serves as the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church of Germantown, a 2019 church plant. His personal travel includes Honduras, Argentina, Trinidad & Tobago, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Dr. Charping […]

David L. Allen, PhD

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Dr. David L. Allen serves as Mid-America’s Distinguished Professor of Practical Theology and Dean of the Adrian Rogers Center for Biblical Preaching. A true preacher’s preacher, Dr. Allen began preaching at age 16, and has taught preaching from the bachelor to the doctoral level since the late 1980s. He earned his MDIV from Southwestern Baptist […]

Rebecca McClain

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Alicia Dickenson

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Daphne Sandiford

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Nick Brown

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Tell us about your personal background, testimony, and family. I grew up in North Texas with a loving family. At 16 years of age, I professed Jesus as my Lord and Savior after a season of studying the book of Romans. Soon after becoming a follower of Jesus, the Lord created a desire in me […]