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 speaker. He began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing his own. He has published over 200 books listed in the Library of Congress, 8 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List; several 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.

Towns was President of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive American Accreditation and Canadian Provincial authority to offer degrees (1960- 1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in Greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and Evangelism (1965-1971).

He is Co-Founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell Sr., in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 15,000 students on campus and 100,000 online students.

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

His personal education includes a B.A. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois and a DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

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PRE-CONFERENCE: Faith Sharing with Skeptics and Nones — Hosted by Great Commission Research Network
North America is becoming one of the fastest growing mission fields due in part to the rise of those who are skeptical, indifferent, or simply do not want to be affiliated with a church. Learn how to reach this group from practitioners and the latest research from the Great Commission Research Network. We will address the idea of better equipping leaders to reach Generation Z and others who are far from God. More details for this pre-con here.
Day / Time: Monday 1:00pm — 5:00pm and Tuesday 8:00am — 11:30am
Location: Kids 2 - Room 106K

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