Dr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, for three years and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing his own (he has published over 100 books listed in the Library of Congress, 7 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List; several becoming accepted as college textbooks. He is also the 1995 recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the Christian Booksellers Association for writing the Book of the Year: The Names of the Holy Spirit.

He is co-founder of Liberty University with Jerry Falwell, Sr., in 1971, and was the only fulltime teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the university has over 15,000 students on campus with 90,000 online students.

Dr. Towns has given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50 theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000 reference and/or popular articles and received six honorary doctoral degrees. Four doctoral dissertations have analyzed his contribution to religious education and evangelism.

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PRE-CONFERENCE: Church Planting Nuts & Bolts – Hosted by Passion for Planting
Passion for Planting is offering a high-energy equipping lab that features experienced practitioners teaching church planting fundamentals with disciple making at the core. On Day 1, we'll focus on real-world, proven and practical methods of disciple making. On Day 2, we'll provide the "how to" nuts and bolts (with tools & templates) essential to church planting. Come learn, be encouraged, be challenged and have fun! Don't just plant a church, start a Disciple Making Movement that fuels a Church Planting Movement! Full list of speakers for this pre-con here.
Day / Time: Monday 1:00pm – 5:00pm and Tuesday 8:00am – 11:30am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301E

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