PhD Colloquium with Dr. J.D. Payne

120 S Wingate St,Wake Forest NC 27587

13 October, 2021

Description

The Office of PhD Studies will host a colloquium with Dr. J.D. Payne. Lunch will be provided. Dr. J. D. Payne serves as professor of Christian Ministry at Samford University. Prior to this, he was the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. Before moving to Birmingham, he served for ten years with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism in the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting. He is originally from Corbin, Kentucky. Following the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Kentucky, he later completed a Master of Divinity degree in Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Evangelism and Church Growth from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Over the years, he has written numerous articles and reviews in the area of missions and evangelism and church growth. He is the author of ten books: Missional House Churches: Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel; The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members; Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Why, and Hows of Global Church Planting; Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today’s Questions; Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration, and Mission; Roland Allen: Pioneer of Spontaneous Expansion; Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel; Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church; To the Edge: Reflections on Kingdom Leadership, Mission, and Innovation; and Apostolic Church Planting: Birthing New Churches from New Believers. In addition to these works, he and Mark Terry co-authored Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction as part of the Baker Academic Encountering Mission series, and co-edited, with Craig Ott, Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities which is part of the annual Evangelical Missiological Society/William Carey Library publication. He is also the editor of Roland Allen’s the Ministry of Expansion: The Priesthood of the Laity.