Gateway faculty teach from experience — not just expertise.
Associate Professor of New Testament Studies | Director of the Rocky Mountain Campus
Senior Professor of New Testament Studies
Director of Online Education | Associate Professor of New Testament Studies
Associate Dean for Educational Effectiveness | Professor of Old Testament Studies
Dean to the Faculty | Vice President of Academic Services | Professor of New Testament Studies
Chair, Biblical Studies | Professor of New Testament
Director, Rocky Mountain Campus | Professor of New Testament Studies
Associate Dean, Academic Services | Professor of Old Testament Studies
Senior Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies
Professor of Church History | Chair, History/Theological Studies | Director, Jonathan Edwards Center
Director of Library Services | Associate Professor of Theological Research | Curator of the Marian Eakins Archaeological Collection
Director, San Francisco Campus | Associate Professor of Historical Theology
Chair, Missions Department | Professor of Missions
Associate Professor of Intercultural Education | Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program
Vice President of Student Services & Enrollment | Associate Professor of Educational Leadership
Chair, Educational Leadership | Professor of Educational Leadership
Director, Arizona Campus | Professor of Ministry Leadership
Director, Pacific Northwest Campus | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Senior Professor of Ministry Leadership | Special Assistant to the President for Korean Programs
Director of ADVANCE | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Director of Theological Field Education | Chair, Leadership Formation | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Director, Master of Arts in Christian Counseling Program | Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling
Distinguished Professor of Leadership Formation | William O. Crews Chair of the Jeff P Iorg School of Christian Leadership
Director, Chinese-English Bilingual Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Professor of Old Testament, Bethel College and Seminary
Professor of Christian Theology | Director of the Master's Programs at Anderson University's Clamp Divinity School
Senior Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies
Affiliate Faculty in Early Christianity and Patristic Theology | Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Theology, CBU
Senior Professor of Archaeology and Old Testament Interpretation | Curator Emeritus of the Marian Eakins Archaeological Collection
Senior Professor of Ministry Leadership | Special Assistant to the President for Korean Programs
Senior Professor of New Testament Studies
Senior Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies
Professor of Old Testament
Having graduated from Gateway Seminary in 2009, Dr. Kevin Chen rejoined Gateway as a faculty member in 2024. Most recently, he taught for five years at Christian Witness Theological Seminary, a Chinese seminary in San Jose, CA. Before that, he taught for nine years at Union University in Jackson, TN.
His academic training and main research interests focus on the Pentateuch, intertextuality, Old Testament theology, and the Old Testament’s witness to Christ. His prior teaching experience in a Christian liberal arts university and a Chinese seminary have resulted in additional interests, such as the integration of faith and learning as well as Chinese theological education.
A native of San Jose, CA, Kevin was an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley for three years before quitting to pursue seminary studies full-time. He is married to Joyce, and they have one daughter and one son. He enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, travel, reading, learning languages, and following Bay Area sports teams.
Professor of New Testament Studies
Dr. Daniel M. Gurtner joined Gateway Seminary in 2022 as Professor of New Testament. He has taught in seminaries since 2005, including Bethel Seminary (St Paul, MN) and Southern Seminary (Louisville, KY). He has a passion for making Christ known through careful, deliberate, and worshipful study of the Bible, and training students to do the same. He publishes broadly in the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism, notably the award-winning T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism edited with Loren T. Stuckenbruck (2 vols., 2020). His primary research interests lie in the gospels and their interface with the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, as in his published dissertation, The Torn Veil: Matthew’s Exposition of the Death of Jesus (Cambridge, 2007). He is author/editor of fifteen books and dozens of articles. Dr. Gurtner is currently writing the Word Biblical Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, Society for Biblical Literature, and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, among other organizations, and serves on several editorial boards.
Dan is originally from Pittsburgh, where he met his wife, Beth. Together they have three teenage children.
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Degrees:
Ph.D. University of St Andrews (Scotland)
Th.M., New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL)
M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Seminary (South Hamilton, MA)
B.A., Religion, Grove City College (Grove City, PA)
Associate Professor of New Testament Studies | Director of the Rocky Mountain Campus
Dr. Josh Hutchens serves as Director of the Rocky Mountain Campus and Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Gateway Seminary. He also serves as a pastor at Overland Church in Fort Collins, Colorado. Prior to moving to Colorado, he served as a missionary in Malawi for six years, where he focused on equipping Malawian and Mozambican pastors. He remains actively engaged in ministry in Africa and previously spent six years pastoring two churches in Kentucky and two years as a missionary in Moldova.
His academic research and writing focus on the letters of Paul and biblical theology. He is the author of Persecution and Cosmic Conflict: The Biblical-Theological Reading of Genesis in Galatians (Wipf and Stock) and contributed to the NIV Timeline Bible (Zondervan). Additionally, he has served as a theological review editor for several study Bible projects.
Josh holds a Ph.D. in biblical theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also earned his Th.M. and Advanced M.Div. He completed his undergraduate studies at Boyce College, graduating with a B.A. in biblical and theological studies and a minor in missions. He has taught as an adjunct for the University of the Cumberlands and Grand Canyon Theological Seminary.
Originally from Kentucky, he and his wife, Stacy, have five children. Josh enjoys hiking and fishing in beautiful Colorado.
Director, KEB Program | Associate Professor of New Testament Studies
Dr. Paul Jo joined the faculty at Gateway Seminary in 2025, where he serves as Director of the Korean English Bilingual Program and Associate Professor of New Testament Studies. Prior to this appointment, he served in the PhD department at Gateway Seminary—first as an administrative assistant, then as program coordinator, an experience he truly cherishes. During that time, he also taught as an adjunct professor of Christian Theology.
Born and raised in South Korea, Paul immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. Not long after his arrival, the Lord graciously saved him and called him into gospel ministry. Since then, his heart has been captivated by the call to evangelism, church planting, and preaching and teaching God’s Word. He finds great joy in serving God’s people and advancing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Paul’s academic journey reflects his deep love for Scripture and theological reflection. He earned his first PhD in New Testament studies, with a focus on the Gospel of John. His published work, Introduction to the Literary Art of the Gospel of John: A Literary Approach (Wipf and Stock, 2022), explores the literary beauty and theological depth of the Fourth Gospel. He is currently pursuing a second PhD in theology, continuing to seek greater clarity and faithfulness in the service of the church. Beyond the classroom, Paul treasures time with his family. He is joyfully married to his wife, Jiyoun, and together they delight in raising their daughter, Kelly.
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Ph.D. Candidate, Gateway Seminary
Ph.D., Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div., Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
B.Re., Davis College
Senior Professor of New Testament Studies
Dr. Michael Kuykendall has been teaching for Gateway Seminary since 1989. A former pastor, he maintains a regular preaching and teaching schedule for local churches in the Pacific Northwest.
His research interests include Bible translation, history of the English Bible, Baptist history, and apocalyptic literature. He has published articles on all these interests in Baptist History & Heritage Journal, Bible Review Journal, Pneuma, Theological Librarianship, SBCLIFE, Explore the Bible, Lexham Bible Dictionary, and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He has also contributed two chapters with Jim L. Wilson, R. Gregg Watson, Michael Kuykendall, and David Johnson, Impact Preaching: A Case for the One-Point Expository Sermon (Wooster, OH: Weaver Book Company, 2017).
Kuykendall serves as the editor of Bible Review Journal, president of the Northwest Baptist Historical Society, secretary of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and is on the advisory board of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives.
His hobbies include reading novels, watching old movies, collecting old Bibles, and anything about baseball. He and his wife, Terri, have three daughters and six grandchildren.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Oklahoma Baptist University
Associate Dean for Educational Effectiveness | Professor of Old Testament Studies
Dr. Joshua G. Mathews joined the faculty at Gateway Seminary in 2025, serving as professor of Old Testament studies and as associate dean for educational effectiveness. He received his PhD from Gateway (then Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary) in 2011 and served in a pastoral role initially upon finishing doctoral studies. Starting in 2015 he had been on faculty at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon and was the dean and vice president of academics there for four years prior to coming to Gateway.
The aim of Josh’s vocational pursuits is biblical and theological scholarship for the church. Whether in teaching, research and writing, or administration his desire is to help strengthen God’s people in his word for his glory. While his interests vary broadly, particular areas of study include biblical theology, the Pentateuch, and hermeneutics. He has written on these topics and hopes to continue contributing in ways that serve the seminary and the church. He is also an elder at his church and loves investing in that role as a shepherd of the local body of believers.
Josh is a native of the Pacific Northwest, and Gateway’s Northwest campus will be his home base. He and his wife, Stacy, have four children: two girls and two boys. They enjoy all kinds of activities together as a family, from games and backyard barbecues to camping on Mt. Hood and hiking in the Columbia River Gorge.
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Professor of Old Testament Studies
Dr. Paul Smith is originally from Arkansas. He received his B.A. in History with a concentration in World War II. His graduate studies focused on the Old Testament. He has written several articles for evangelism magazines, as well as book reviews for theological journals.
He has been a pastor for 32 years at churches in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Illinois. He is presently the pastor of First Baptist Church in Chandler, Arizona.
Paul and his wife Jerri have four children: two girls, two boys, one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren. Paul enjoys hiking, mountain biking, playing the trumpet and bass guitar, and has a black belt in TaeKwonDo.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Ouachita Baptist University
Dean to the Faculty | Vice President of Academic Services | Professor of New Testament Studies
Joining the Gateway family in June 2021, Alex Stewart serves as vice president of academic services and professor of New Testament studies. Prior to coming to Gateway Seminary, he served for eight years as a faculty member in New Testament at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. For six and a half years of that time he also served as the academic dean. In addition to Tyndale, he has taught as an online adjunct faculty member for Columbia Biblical Seminary and Liberty University. His desire to advance God’s global kingdom through training Christian leaders drew him into theological education and administrative leadership, and his longing to know and faithfully serve God motivates his research into the biblical text.
Alex’s research interests include Revelation, the General Epistles, Second Temple Jewish Literature, and Rhetorical Analysis. He has authored or coauthored several books including The First Days of Jesus (Crossway), The Final Days of Jesus (Crossway), Jesus and the Future (Lexham Press), and Soteriology as Motivation in the Apocalypse of John (Gorgias Press). He has also contributed chapters to Peter in the Early Church (Peeters), Israel as Hermeneutical Challenge (Brill), Reading the Gospel of Mark in the Twenty-First Century (Peeters), New Perspectives on the Book of Revelation (Peeters), and Getting into the Text (Pickwick). Among other journals, he has published articles in JSNT, JBL, BBR, TynBul, and JETS, and he regularly presents papers at SBL and ETS conferences.
Alex grew up in northwest Connecticut. He and his wife Jenny have six children, four boys and two girls. They enjoy spending time together through family walks, board games, and nerf-battles in the park.
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Degrees and Accolades
Ph.D., Biblical Studies, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina
M.Div., Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions, Columbia, South Carolina.
B.A., Bible and Pastoral Ministry, Columbia International University, Columbia, South Carolina.
Chair, Biblical Studies | Professor of New Testament
Dr John W. Taylor is Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Gateway Seminary. Originally from Australia, he studied urban planning before going into missions, spending over 20 years in England in urban missions, evangelism, discipleship and mission leadership. He has taught and preached in churches, conferences and seminaries in many nations. He taught New Testament at Southwestern Seminary before coming to Gateway in 2016.
He sees his current role as a teacher and scholar in direct continuity with his missionary experience. His passion is to teach people to read the Bible well, because it is the word of God, and in order to multiply the ministry of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit into the world. He has published broadly in the areas of Pauline theology, and Paul and economic life.
He and his wife Heidi have four children and five grandchildren. His hobbies include painting, playing guitar and walking on the beach.
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Degrees & Accolades
2004 Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England Member of St. Edmund’s College
Additional studies at Tyndale House – Paul’s Understanding of Faith
2000 M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA
1980 BTRP, University of Melbourne, Australia
Director, Rocky Mountain Campus | Professor of New Testament Studies
Dr. Steve Veteto has written lessons for the SBC Advanced Bible Study and has contributed to the New Holman Bible Dictionary. He has been active in local Baptist churches and associations in Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Colorado, and has served in local and international missions. He taught as an adjunct professor at New Orleans and Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminaries and currently at Colorado Christian University. Steve currently is professor of New Testament studies and director of the Rocky Mountain Campus at Gateway Seminary.
Before joining Gateway, Steve was the pastor of CrossPoint Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, LA. He came to the Rocky Mountain Campus in the summer of 2001 and brings experience in the church planting field and also the business community. He served as interim pastor in seven churches since returning to Colorado and also on the Board of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC.
He and his wife, Cris, have four children – Stephen, Nicholas, Philip, and Hannah. As a native of Colorado, Steve and his family have come home. He enjoys reading, hiking 14ers, fly fishing, and competing in triathlons.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
B.S. Colorado School of Mines
Associate Dean, Academic Services | Professor of Old Testament Studies
Before serving as Professor of Old Testament Studies at Gateway Seminary, Dr. Gregg Watson served as a translator for the Holman Christian Standard Bible project, working on one of the Old Testament translation committees. He also served as pastor of Brandon Baptist Church in Brandon, Texas for seven years and taught as an adjunct professor in the Old Testament Department at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He believes that God’s call and purpose for his life is teaching, studying, and interpreting the Old Testament as a means of building strong foundations in the spiritual lives of those who will participate in the ministries of preaching, teaching, worshipping, and evangelism. He enjoys watching and participating in sports of all kinds and collects sports memorabilia as a hobby.
His wife, Kim, and three children (Noah, Seth, and Hannah) enjoy playing together, worshipping together, and going on adventures together.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Ouachita Baptist University
Senior Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies
Dr. Paul Wegner, senior distinguished professor of Old Testament Studies, grew up in Iowa as the son of a pastor, and as a child remembers many hours spent either playing or working around the church. After graduation from high school, Paul attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois where he majored in pastoral training.
He then completed two degrees at Trinity Divinity School. While working on his second degree, Paul met Cathy and they married about a year later. In the last couple of years at Trinity, Paul taught a beginning Hebrew class and found that he really enjoyed teaching. Thus the couple headed to England for doctoral studies.
Paul graduated from Kings College, University of London in 1991 and began teaching at Moody Bible Institute. He taught there for about thirteen years in the Bible department and then became professor of Old Testament at Phoenix Seminary in 2001, where he remained for about eleven years.
Paul has written numerous articles and has the following books in print: The Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible (Baker Academic, 2004); A Student’s Guide to Textual Criticism: It’s History, Methods, and Results (IVP, 2006); Using Old Testament Hebrew in Preaching: A Guide for Students and Pastors (Kregel Academic, 2009), and he has revised Walter C. Kaiser, A History of Israel (Louisville: Broadman and Holman). Dr. Wegner worked on the ESV Study Bible, specifically working on the notes for Habakkuk, Daniel, and an article on the Reliability of the Old Testament. In addition, he has delivered many lectures and papers for academic and popular audiences. His specialty is the book of Isaiah and he recently completed a commentary on Isaiah for the distinguished Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series..
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Kings College, University of London
Th.M. Trinity International University
M.Div. Trinity International University
B.A. Moody Bible Institute
Senior Professor of Old Testament Studies
Dr. Benny Wong is the director of Gateway Seminary’s Chinese-English Bilingual Program and associate professor of leadership formation. He was born in Hong Kong, but he immigrated to Canada in 1978. He became a Christian while he was a teenager and he was called to Christian ministry in 1980. He started his first pastorate in 1984, after he graduated from a Bible college. In 1989, he returned back to Canada to pastor a Chinese Alliance church after he received his M.Div. from a seminary in Taiwan. In 1993, the Lord directed him to Los Angeles to pastor First Chinese Baptist Church Los Angeles until 2023–when he became CEB director at Gateway. In 2001, he received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Wong is an ordained pastor who is well known to Chinese Baptist churches in North America. He served as the president of the US & Canada Chinese Baptist Fellowship from 2018-2022. He is married to his wife, Julia. His hobbies include cooking, playing violin and saxophone.
Degrees
D.Min., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, CA
M.Div., China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan
B.Th., Prairie Bible College, Three Hills, AB, Canada
Professor of Church History | Chair, History/Theological Studies | Director, Jonathan Edwards Center
Dr. Chris Chun’s doctoral research at St Andrews University was focused on the eighteenth century Edwardsean Baptists in Britain. His Th.M. thesis at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary examined the relationship between Jonathan Edwards’s epistemology and pneumatology.
Chris’s most recent publication appears in the critical edition of The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, contributing the volume on Universalism and Particular Redemption. He is the author of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller and co-author of Golden Gate to Gateway: A History, published in celebration of Gateway Seminary’s 75th anniversary. Chris also is a co-editor of Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things: William Carey & Adoniram Judson, Mission Pioneers and Regeneration, Revival, and Creation, the inaugural volume of the JEC conference.
He has contributed chapters to Baptists and Revivals, Jonathan Edwards and Scotland, Crossing Baptist Boundaries, and Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America’s Theologian.
His work has published in a wide range of journals, including The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, American Baptist Quarterly, Gateway Journal of Theology, Journal of Baptist Studies, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fides et Historia, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Themelios, Edwardseana, and Church History and Religious Culture.
Chris is Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center (West) and Department Chair of History and Theology at Gateway Seminary. He has served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society (Far West Region). He is one of the lead editors of the Jonathan Edwards Studies Journal, published by the JEC at Yale University. An ordained Southern Baptist pastor, Chris is a frequent speaker at churches, conferences, and retreats. He and his wife, Juliann, have two daughters, Karis and Chloe.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. University of St. Andrews
Th.M. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
M.Div. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
B.A. Western Washington University
President | Professor of Philosophy
Adam is a native Californian and has taught philosophy related classes at a variety of institutions including California Baptist University, Tarleton State University, Scarborough College, and Korea Baptist Theological Seminary. Adam joined the Gateway family in June 2010 after serving on faculty and as director of admissions at Southwestern. He also currently serves as professor of philosophy of religion. Adam wrote Unraveling Philosophy (B&H Academic) with J.P. Moreland, Faith Wins: Overcoming a Crisis of Belief (New Hope Publishers, 2020) and has contributed to various books including Ministry in the New Marriage Culture (B&H, 2016) and Idealism and Christian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), and his writings have been featured by online by Baptist Press, the ERLC, CBMW, and Preaching Source.
Adam has been married to Holly since 2000 and together they have four children: Cosette, Charlie , Christian, and Cate. Holly is from Burbank, California and enjoys being a stay-at-home mother and homeschooling her children. In their spare time, the Grozas enjoy hiking, going to the beach, and concerts.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Th.M. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. The Master’s Seminary
B.S. Northern Arizona University
Director of Library Services | Associate Professor of Theological Research | Curator of the Marian Eakins Archaeological Collection
Dr. Jonathan McCormick earned his M.Div. from the Brea campus of Gateway Seminary while serving a church in vocational ministry. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue the Ph.D. Jonathan’s dissertation examined the tradition of confessions of faith among Baptists in the United States through the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message. His continued research works with Baptist history, intertextuality, digital humanities, research methods, and the history of theological literature.
Having experienced the variety of classroom environments, Jonathan enjoys seeing how theological research translates into innovative ministry practice. This experience also provides the context to coach students to more effective information use in research.
Jonathan is married to Amanda, a graduate of Gateway with her M.A.E.L. They have 4 children: Calvin, Alexander, Alethiea, and Lorien. He enjoys miniature golf, science fiction, and fantasy literature.
Degrees & Accolades
M.L.I.S. San Jose State University
Ph.D. Gateway Seminary
M.Div. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A.T. California Baptist University
Senior Professor of World Missions
Dr. Don Dent serves as Senior Professor of World Missions. A native of Mississippi, he worked in Asian megacities for thirty years with the International Mission Board and another international corporation. His cross-cultural experience includes time in a variety of cultural environments where he developed communities in urban high-rises, created strategies for penetrating new markets, provided leadership for over a hundred expatriate teams, developed leaders, and directed on-boarding processes for new corporate personnel.
Don enjoys activities as diverse as quietly reading a book and ocean kayak fishing for sharks. He is the author of The Ongoing Role of Apostles in Missions and Finding Direction to Redeem the Nations. He has also contributed articles and chapters in the Mission of God series, Global Missiology, and EMQ as well as written evangelistic publications in the Indonesian language.
Since college days, Anne has been the love of his life. Since 2023 they have lived outside of Brandon, MS. Their daughter, Chesed, and son, Rob, grew up in Asia and have also worked for several years overseas as adults. Chesed presently lives in Virginia with her husband Matthew where she provides care for third-culture kids at Liberty University. Rob, and his wife Lindsey and daughter Millie, live in Pearl, MS, where he serves on the staff of Colonial Heights Baptist Church.
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Degrees and Accolades
D.Miss., Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A., Mississippi College
Chair, Missions Department | Professor of Missions
Philip O. Hopkins holds dual doctorates: a Ph.D. in Applied Theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest, North Carolina) and a Ph.D. in Iranian History from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Before joining Gateway Seminary, he taught at Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan, Armenia, Southeastern Seminary, and Southwestern Seminary. He also served as a research associate with the Centre of World Christianity at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Hopkins has published with academic presses including Brill, Palgrave Macmillan, I.B. Tauris, and Broadman & Holman. He is currently completing a chapter titled “The Subversive Nature of Christianity in Modern Iran” for the forthcoming I.B. Tauris Handbook of State and Society in Modern Iran (2026). Additionally, he is co-authoring A History of Christianity in Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa with Kambiz Saghaey of Southeastern Seminary, under contract with Broadman & Holman Academic (2028).
He is the host of From Here to Eternity, a podcast dedicated to thoughtful Christian engagement with global and cross-cultural issues. He also serves as a vice president of the Evangelical Missiological Society and as an associate editor of IRAN, the journal for the British Institute of Persian Studies.
Since the spontaneous candlelight vigil in Tehran following the events of 9/11, Hopkins has worked to foster meaningful dialogue with Iranians on topics of culture, history, philosophy, and religion. His research focuses on the history of Christianity in Iran during and after the Pahlavi era, with particular attention to ethnic Christian communities (especially Armenians and Assyrians), Christian nationalism and ideology, and Iranian perceptions of Western Christian missions. He is especially interested in the influence of American Christian missionary activity in Iran during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Phil is married to Mary Ann, a linguist fluent in several languages. He continues to encourage her to pursue doctoral studies. Mary Ann homeschools their son, and the family is actively involved in their local church and community.
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Degrees
Ph.D., University of St. Andrews
Ph.D., Southeastern Seminary
M.A., Southeastern Seminary
B.A., The King’s College
Associate Professor of Intercultural Education | Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program
Since 1994, Dr. Kim has been teaching in the areas of intercultural studies, leadership skills formation, and educational leadership. He has served as the English Ministry pastor at various Korean-American churches since 1990. He has been passionately involved in challenging the next generation of immigrant Christians to pursue God’s dream instead of the American dream. This challenge has also included mobilizing the immigrant churches for missions as well as encouraging the second generation to consider full time vocational ministry.
Dr. Kim’s research interests include culture’s impact on understanding and communicating the gospel, bilingual education, and higher education
Prior to coming to the seminary, Dr. Kim worked as a systems engineer at Rockwell International in Anaheim, California. He and his wife, Mary, have three children, Caleh, Austin, and Karis.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. BIOLA University
M.A.C.E. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.S. California Polytechnic University
B.S. University of California at Santa Barbara
Senior Professor of Evangelism
Eddie Pate, senior professor of evangelism, has been associated with Gateway in one way or another since 2005. He is the former director of Gateway Seminary’s Southern California Campus and served four years as director of the David and Faith Kim School of Global Missions from 2008-2012. Eddie taught at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary before coming to Gateway. Prior to that time, Eddie and family lived in Jordan and Sudan (1993-2004). Eddie served as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church, Barstow California from 1986-1993 and again from 2012 to 2021. He has additional experience as senior pastor of the North Temple Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, from 1982-1986.
Dr. Pate has a BA in religion from California Baptist College, 1980, and an M.Div. (1984) and D.Min. (1989) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has studied additionally at Fuller Seminary and Biola as well the Kelsey School in Amman, Jordan.
Though born in Memphis, Tennessee, Eddie grew up in Anaheim, California, in the shadow of Anaheim Stadium and Disneyland. He has been married to Myrla (a Texan) for the past 42 years. They have four grown sons (three married), four granddaughters and seven grandsons. He loves living in the High Desert, bicycling, kayaking and fishing in California! Dr. Pate loves all kinds of food and especially combination burritos (California Bold style) from the original Del Taco in Barstow, California.
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Degrees and Accolades
D.Min., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A., California Baptist College, Riverside, CA
Vice President of Student Services & Enrollment | Associate Professor of Educational Leadership
Dr. Kristen Ferguson’s doctoral research at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary investigated evangelical faculty perceptions on online theological education. Her continued research focuses on online course design, blended learning, and online teaching best practices. Dr. Ferguson has presented at conferences including the Online Learning Consortium annual international conference, the Society of Professors of Christian Education, as well as the Technology in Theological Education Group of the Association of Theological Schools.
Kristen serves in ministry alongside her husband, Anthony, senior pastor of 11th Street Baptist Church in Upland, California. They and their children, Asher and Lyla, love investing into the ministries of Southern California and the ministries represented by the online students of Gateway Seminary.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Applied Theology California Baptist University
Chair, Educational Leadership | Professor of Educational Leadership
Dr. Paul Kelly began his service at Gateway Seminary in Fall 2009. His teaching responsibilities include the courses for the youth ministry certificate as well as other educational leadership courses. Prior to coming to Gateway, Kelly served as vice president of ministry resources at Student Life Publishing, editor-in-chief of discipleship resources in Student Ministry Publishing at LifeWay Christian Resources, as well as a youth specialist in Discipleship at LifeWay. He served churches in Oklahoma, Texas, and Illinois.
Kelly serves as the Senior Editor of the Journal of Youth Ministry, and has contributed chapters to Ministry in the New Marriage Culture (Jeff Iorg, ed.) and Christian Education: A Guide to the Foundations of Ministry (Freddy Cordoza, ed.). He has published dozens of Bible studies, study courses, articles, and devotionals for youth and adults.
Kelly serves on the Board of the Association of Youth Ministry Educators and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry.
Kelly’s doctoral research focused on similarities in youth ministry objectives across cultures. He has a strong interest in cross-cultural ministry and is a regular guest professor in locations such as the Philippines, the Ivory Coast and Armenia.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Th.M. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Oklahoma Baptist University
Director, Arizona Campus | Professor of Ministry Leadership
While currently serving as associate professor of Ministry Leadership, Dr. Bivins is a former football coach, radio DJ, business administrator and pastor, and is passionate about helping people take the next step in their development. Prior to Gateway, he served as an associational missionary in Tennessee and Alaska, leading transformational processes founded on church planting and renewals, and leadership coaching. Dallas brings a unique blend of coaching experience from the athletic field, business boardroom, and the local church.
A Phoenix native, Dallas is a graduate of Thunderbird High School and Grand Canyon University (B.A.), as well as Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.R.E.). He holds a Doctor of Education from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from Gateway Seminary. His doctoral studies focused on servant leadership and transformational leadership coaching.
Dallas is married to Becca, and they have three children. Dallas enjoys his free time on the golf course, working on his old cars, and riding his bike. The Bivins family is an ardent supporter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Degrees & Accolades
D.Min. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.A.R.E. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Grand Canyon University
Director, Pacific Northwest Campus | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
While serving as an associate professor of Leadership Formation, Dr. Mark Bradley is a Northwest native and first generation Southern Baptist. He began his MDiv studies at the Pacific Northwest Campus the day after he was elected pastor of Beavercreek Baptist Church in Oregon, in 1981.
He returned to Gateway as director of the PNWC in January, 2010 after twenty-five years as a pastor, the last seventeen at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pullman, Washington.
Dr. Bradley rejoices to partner with the Northwest Baptist Convention by shaping leaders who expand God’s kingdom in the Northwest and around the world. Having begun as a Baptist Collegiate Ministries Director while still a student himself, he has served as an officer of the Northwest Baptist Convention and on their Executive Board, and on the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Dr. Bradley and his wife Joy have four children. He enjoys running, hiking, movies, and reading.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.S. Western Oregon State College
Director of ADVANCE | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Warren Haynes is the national director of ADVANCE, a program of Gateway Seminary. Warren leads an expansive network of leadership centers that focus on empowering Christians to reach for their full potential. He has a Doctor of Ministry degree and serves as a faculty member for Gateway Seminary. Warren’s passion is to inspire people to expand their leadership capacity, make disciples, and sharpen their communication skills. He is the author of Discipleship Uncomplicated (Carpenter’s Son Publishing 2016), Release Compassion (48HrBooks, 2011) and The Bible Bookmark (Copyright, 2004). He speaks to youth, college students, churches, pastors, and state and national Christian leaders. He brings a fun and refreshing approach to interacting and influencing people. His uncomplicated disciple-making approaches work in small rural towns, bustling metropolitan cities and international settings. Warren is a husband, father, and follower of Jesus Christ.
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Degrees & Accolades
D.Min., Gateway Seminary, Pacific Northwest Campus
M.Div., Gateway Seminary, Pacific Northwest Campus
B.S., Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Dr. Garrett Ho is associate director of Gateway’s Doctor of Ministry program and associate professor of leadership formation. He is a Southern California native, with educational stops in Birmingham, England, and Miami, Florida.
Dr. Ho brings with him pastoral and community leadership experience. He has served in multiple roles within the church, including teaching, operations, and executive leadership. Within the local community he serves as lead chaplain for the police department and as a faith community organizer. He has a passion for community engagement, pastoral friendship, biblical counseling and seeing leaders reach their potential in Christ.
Garrett and his wife Jessica have two young daughters. Together they enjoy outdoor activities, Marvel superheroes, and cheering for Los Angeles sports teams.
Degrees and Accolades
D.Min. Gateway Seminary
M.Div. The Master’s Seminary
M.B.A. University of Miami, FL
B.A. University of California at Irvine
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Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Dr. Cliff Jenkins is the associate director of Gateway’s Doctor of Ministry program and associate professor of leadership formation. He is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but has spent most of his adult life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Throughout his ministry career, Dr. Jenkins has served in various leadership capacities including pastor, interim pastor and church planter. Currently, Dr. Jenkins serves Mt. Zion Church of Ontario as pastor of discipleship and church planting.
In 2011, Dr. Jenkins transitioned into a new phase of ministry, becoming an endorsed missionary with the North American Mission Board (NAMB). He served as a church planting catalyst, helping leaders start new church works in areas of need. This led to Dr. Jenkins being promoted in 2017 to State Director of Missions for NAMB and the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania / South Jersey (Baptist Resource Network). During this time, he also completed a successful twenty-five-year career, as a commercial underwriter for three insurance companies: Aetna, Travelers and Zurich.
Dr. Jenkins advocates for racial unity within the body of Christ and consults leaders through his company, Onyx Ministries, to establish multiethnic churches. He is passionate about equipping men and women to grow in their relationship with God and become leaders through discipleship and academic development.
Cliff and his wife Michelle have two grown children, and one son-in-love. Christopher teaches at Expect Excellence in Orange Beach, Alabama. Stephanie has a career in the coroner’s office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives with her husband, Patrick, who is a USPS carrier. Cliff enjoys football, cooking and auto racing.
Degrees & Accolades
D.Min. Gateway Seminary
M.Div. Biblical (Missio) Seminary
B.A. University of Pittsburgh
Director, DMin Program | Professor of Leadership Formation
David Johnson has been teaching for Gateway Seminary off and on for 30 years. He taught his first class when the Arizona Campus was established in 1995. He served as the Director of the Arizona Campus from 2003-2013. He taught as an adjunct professor while serving as the Executive Director of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists (Arizona Southern Baptist Convention) from 2013-2025. He rejoined the faculty in 2025 as the Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program.
Dr. Johnson and his wife, Diana, live in Peoria, Arizona not far from their two daughters and 7 grandchildren. They are members of Royal Palms Baptist Church in Phoenix where Diana teaches a women’s Bible study and David serves as an elder. Their son, Jeremiah, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Mozambique, Africa while serving as a missionary with the International Mission Board in 2010. Since that time, they have been heavily involved in mission work in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Johnson served as a pastor of two churches in Texas and two churches in Arizona. He and his wife are graduates of Baylor University. David earned the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Some years later, he received the Doctor of Ministry degree from Gateway (then Golden Gate) Seminary. He enjoys camping, hiking, kayaking, and spending time with his grandchildren.
Ph.D., Southwestern Seminary
D.Min., Gateway Seminary
M.Div., Southwestern Seminary
B.A., Baylor University
Director of Theological Field Education | Chair, Leadership Formation | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Rich Johnstone began teaching at Gateway from 2012-2015 while also serving with the North American Mission Board. He returned to Gateway in 2021 as trustee-elected faculty. He serves as the director of theological field education as well as associate professor of leadership formation. He also chairs the Leadership Formation Department.
Johnstone served for 20 years as an endorsed missionary of North American Mission Board, most recently serving in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he worked with churches and partners to develop and mobilize church planting missionaries to engage unreached communities with the gospel. Prior to that, he served two Baptist associations in California as Director of Missions with a focus on church health and multiplication. Johnstone began ministry in California as a bi-vocational pastor, working also in a chemical analysis laboratory.
Prior to coming to California to attend Golden Gate Seminary, Johnstone lived in urban Chicago, suburban Cook County, and small-town Texas.
Rich and his wife, Rhonda, have three grown children who live on the West Coast. Johnstone is a trail runner who also enjoys gravel cycling.
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Degrees
D.Min. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. East Texas Baptist College
Associate Professor of Preaching
Brian Eric Kennedy is Associate Professor of Preaching at Gateway. He has been the Senior Pastor of Mt. Zion Church of Ontario, California, since 1998. Previously, he served eleven years as the Los Angeles Area Director for Prison Fellowship and also served as a youth pastor for 15 years in two local churches in Los Angeles. He serves as an Ontario Fire Chaplain, and connects Mt. Zion and the community with Federal, State, County, and Local Law Enforcement Officials and political leaders to address positive policing from the inside out. He has served on mission trips in Uganda, Rwanda, St. Vincent, WI, and in Holmes County, Mississippi. He is the Author of Timeless Insights From the Book of Judges, Westbow Press, 2017, and a contributing Author of Secret Sex Wars, Lift Every Voice, 2008.
Dr. Kennedy’s life goal is to live out servant leadership among the Mt. Zion Church congregation and beyond, to the end that God is glorified in His church by Christ Jesus (Ephesians 3:20 -21).
Dr. Kennedy met Hilda and “married up,” They enjoy parenting four beautiful adult children, all their friends, and other bonus children. Brian enjoys cycling with the Mt. Zion’s Cycling Ministry and enriching fellowship around great food.
Degrees & Accolades
D.Min., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, CA
M.Div., Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA
B.S., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Director, Master of Arts in Christian Counseling Program | Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling
Dr. Jordan Williams serves as director of Gateway Seminary’s Master of Arts in Christian Counseling (MACC) program and as assistant professor of biblical counseling. He is a certified biblical counselor with the Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC) and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC). He earned his doctorate at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where his research focused on a biblical counseling approach to understanding and addressing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) through Scripture’s anthropology. Dr. Williams has also contributed writings to the Biblical Counseling Coalition.
He has served in several ministry contexts, including youth, pastoral, and counseling ministries. In 2022, Dr. Williams founded Storyline Biblical Counseling, a parachurch counseling ministry, where he offers biblical counseling help to others.
Dr. Jordan Williams is married to Dr. Chessa Williams, who is assistant professor of worship arts and ministry and the program director of worship arts at California Baptist University. Jordan and Chessa are parents to Judah Eliot. As a family, they enjoy exploring California—especially its beaches, coffee shops, and cuisine.
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Ph.D., Southern Seminary
Th.M., Southern Seminary
M.Div., Southern Seminary
B.S., Fresno State University
Distinguished Professor of Leadership Formation | William O. Crews Chair of the Jeff P Iorg School of Christian Leadership
Jim Wilson started preaching when he was 17, became a pastor when he was 18 and served as a full-time pastor until he became a professor. Today, he is Distinguished Professor of Leadership Formation and William O. Crews Chair of the Jeff P. Iorg School of Christian Leadership at Gateway Seminary where he has served since 2006. In addition, he speaks at conferences, seminars, retreats and in other local churches.
Wilson is an award winning writer with hundreds of pieces in print and the author, co-author or contributor of many books. Zondervan Academic, Broadman & Holman, Lexham Press, Serendipity House, LifeWay, Weaver Book Company, Standard Publishing, and Tyndale House have published his work.
His recent books include, Illustrating Well: Preaching Sermons that Connect, A Guide To Theological Reflection. Impact Preaching: A Case for the One-Point Expository Sermon, Pastoral Ministry in the Real World, and 300 illustrations for Preachers.
His sermons and sermon illustrations appear in WordSearch, Accordance and Logos Bible Software and on FreshMinistry.org.
Jim and his wife Susan have two sons, two daughters-in-law and four grandchildren.
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Degrees & Accolades
D.Min. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Wayland Baptist University
Associate Professor of Women's Ministry
Alicia Wong serves as the Associate Professor of Women’s Ministry at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, CA. She has served as a missionary with the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board. She has been teaching and speaking in conferences and classes internationally and nationwide for over 20 years. Her desire is to see women be firmly rooted in biblical truth, built up in Christ, and established in their faith in order that they may share the good news with others to the ends of the earth. She is a graduate of Pepperdine University (B.A.), Gateway Seminary (M.A. in Intercultural Studies and M.A. in Christian Counseling), and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ed.D.).
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Degrees & Accolades
D.Ed. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.A.I.S. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Pepperdine University
Director, Chinese-English Bilingual Program | Associate Professor of Leadership Formation
Dr. Benny Wong is the director of Gateway Seminary’s Chinese-English Bilingual Program and associate professor of leadership formation. He was born in Hong Kong, but he immigrated to Canada in 1978. He became a Christian while he was a teenager and he was called to Christian ministry in 1980. He started his first pastorate in 1984, after he graduated from a Bible college. In 1989, he returned back to Canada to pastor a Chinese Alliance church after he received his M.Div. from a seminary in Taiwan. In 1993, the Lord directed him to Los Angeles to pastor First Chinese Baptist Church Los Angeles until 2023–when he became CEB director at Gateway. In 2001, he received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Wong is an ordained pastor who is well known to Chinese Baptist churches in North America. He served as the president of the US & Canada Chinese Baptist Fellowship from 2018-2022. He is married to his wife, Julia. His hobbies include cooking, playing violin and saxophone.
Degrees
D.Min., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, CA
M.Div., China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan
B.Th., Prairie Bible College, Three Hills, AB, Canada
Senior Professor of Archaeology and Old Testament Interpretation | Curator Emeritus of the Marian Eakins Archaeological Collection
A native Californian, Dr. Arbino has been at Gateway Seminary since 1986 and began his full-time teaching duties in 1996, achieving the rank of Full Professor in 2010. In addition to teaching and supervision of PhD, ThM, and DMin candidates, he served on numerous committees and functioned as Biblical Studies Department Chair for more than 15 years. Arbino was a key part of the leadership of the reaccreditation (WASC & ATS) processes from 2009-2025. He retired in 2025 and was granted Senior Faculty Status by the Trustees.
For Dr. Arbino, integrating the biblical text with its contexts (historical, literary, canonical, and theological) is essential for the interpretation of God’s Word. Because of this, he has sought to bring the Old Testament to life for students, challenging them to read fully and carefully the words of Scripture to see their beauty, detail, and nuance as the Divinely inspired product of the ancient world, one which continues to speak to our contemporary world. In this way, Dr. Arbino feels that “we will be conformed to the text rather than insisting that the text conform to us.”
From 1990 to 2023, Arbino was active in archaeological excavations. He has served on staff at several digs in the Middle East: Tel Miqne-Ekron, Tall al-Umeryi, Beth Shemesh, Tel Rehov, and Khirbet Summeily. He served as the Senior Field Archaeologist for the Tel Gezer Excavations from 2006-2017 and continues in the publication phase of that project. He has been published by Baylor, Oxford, and Harvard University presses, in addition to numerous articles for the Southern Baptist Biblical Illustrator.
As Curator of the Seminary’s archaeological museum – the Marian Eakins Archaeological Collection, Dr. Arbino brought the results of archaeological fieldwork and analysis to students and local community members. From 1990 to 2025 he produced numerous exhibits at the Mill Valley, Fremont and Ontario campuses. The current museum space consists of four galleries, with exhibits including Ancient Egypt, Roman Glassware, Bedouin Jewelry from Tell el-Hesi, Ancient Pottery, Archaeological Method, and Greek, Jewish, and Roman Period Coins.
A decades-long member of several professional organizations including the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), Arbino remains active in the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR) where he has often presented papers as well as serving on committees and task forces and as a Trustee.
Dr. Arbino is active in church, where he has taught a weekly adult Bible study class for over three decades. He lives with his wife, Maggie, and their senior dog, Pookah, in Petaluma.
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Degrees & Accolades
Ph.D. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. Humboldt State University
Senior Professor of Leadership Formation
Dr. Martin Chien is senior professor of leadership formation at Gateway Seminary. He is originally from Taiwan and graduated from Tamkang University before obtaining his master of church music at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Chien then moved to Texas with his wife, Mimi, to earn his D.M.A. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
In 1999, God called Dr. Chien and his family to return to Taiwan as missionaries. His academic background combined with missionary passion led him to serve as a music and worship pastor, professor, program director, department chair, and dean, establishing multiple relationships with churches and schools. He has spoken, performed, and trained throughout Asia. Dr. Chien has equipped over a thousand students including pastors, professional musicians, and worship leaders around the world in English and Mandarin.
From 2013 to 2015, he was elected as chairman of the Taiwan Guitar Society, presiding over all national and international events pertaining to guitar. Through his two instrumental albums, Journey in 2009, and Expression in 2016, Dr. Chien has been able to tour to more than ten countries, perform over five hundred concerts exceeding a hundred thousand people and witness more than ten thousand people come to Christ.
Dr. Chien is passionate about training Christian leaders for service in every capacity, and challenges students from all walks of life to always offer excellence unto God. He enjoys cultivating each student’s individual strengths through discipleship that they may be equipped to reach the lost world for Christ and become fishers of men.
Dr. Chien and his wife Mimi have two children, Shannon and Joseph. Shannon is studying marriage and family therapy at Northwestern University and Joseph is a culinary specialist serving in the US Army.
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Degrees and Accolades
D.M.A., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Mus., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A., Tamkang University
Senior Professor of Christian Counseling
Dr. Debbie Steele has a long history of service within the Southern Baptist community as a pastor’s wife, missionary and Christian counselor. Most notably, she was employed by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as an overseas missionary, serving for 12 years in the former Yugoslavia during the civil war, which lasted from 1988-2000.
Since 2004, she has operated a private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist, providing Bible-based counseling to the local community.
She has taught previously as an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno and as adjunct faculty at Fresno Pacific University, Fresno City College, Tulane University, Southeastern Louisiana University and Elizabethton College.
She has written numerous scholarly publications and presented at international, national and local professional conferences. Her current passion is working with Christian couples utilizing emotionally focused couples therapy.
Debbie and her husband Bill have two grown children. Her hobbies include tennis, bike riding, walking and skiing.
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Degrees & Accolades
Th.M. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
M.A. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
M.S. University of Louisville
B.S. Medical College of Georgia
