• Keith Parks: ‘Missionary is still my dominant DNA’

  Keith Parks, former president of the Foreign Mission Board and the first coordinator of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions, shares his thoughts on life, ministry, and leading Baptists.

• Tim Lancaster: ‘Our mission has always been about the healing ministry of Jesus Christ’

  Tim Lancaster, president and CEO of Hendrick Health System in Abilene, Texas, discusses his calling “to do something worthwhile and with purpose.”

• Charles Wade: ‘People need Jesus more than they need anything’

  Charles Wade, former executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, shares about the centrality of Christ to everything he did and continues to do.

• Randall Babin: Associations help churches embrace their unique contribution to the Kingdom’s work

  Randall Babin, director of missions for the Soda Lake Baptist Association in Marshall, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• Steve Vernon: ‘Faith, to be meaningful, must be deeply lived’

  Steve Vernon, associate executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, shares his background and thoughts on leading Texas Baptists.

• Glenn Ward: ‘We can always do more working together’

  Glenn Ward, director of missions for the Paluxy Baptist Association in Granbury, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• Robert Wheat: ‘We must show ourselves doers of the Word’

  Robert Wheat, director of missions for the Bi-Fork Baptist Association in Vernon, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• David Hardage: Texas Baptists are doing ‘extensive and exciting’ work

  David Hardage, executive director of Texas Baptists, shares his thoughts on ministry and leading the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

• Lee Floyd: ‘When we reach the campus, we can change the world’

  Lee Floyd, director of the Angelo State University Baptist Student Ministry in San Angelo, Texas, talks about ministering to today’s college students.

• Gene Wilkes: ‘The church must see itself as a mission outpost’

  Gene Wilkes, president of the B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, discusses his calling to serving others in Jesus’ name no matter the mission field he’s in.

• John L. Brackin: Providing ‘the best possible resources to help the local church’

  John L. Brackin, director of missions for the Hill Country Baptist Association, talks about his lifelong calling and how Baptist associations benefit Baptist churches.

• Tom Billings: ‘No one church can reach a city by itself’

  Tom Billings, executive director of Union Baptist Association, discusses his calling and mobilizing Houston-area congregations to “take on lostness.”