INTRODUCING DR. PHIL ROBERTS . . .

   Dr. Phil Roberts is serving at First Baptist Atlanta as Executive Director of Global Partnerships, upon the request of Dr. Anthony George, Senior Pastor. He began in August 2024. He comes with extensive connections globally and a strong leadership background in churches and missions.

 

Roberts served as president of Midwestern Seminary from 2001-2012. His tenure was noted by much mission emphasis, including the Fusion Gap program for under-graduates, the implementation of a Ph.D. program, as well as institution of the seminary's college and the establishment of a Korean language degree program.

 

Roberts served seven years with the North American Mission Board (NAMB), where he served as vice president for the Strategic Cities Strategies Group. He also was director of NAMB’s Interfaith Evangelism Department and vice president for urban evangelism and church planting.

 

In the early 1990s he was professor of missions and evangelism at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., and co-directed the Lewis Drummond Center for Great Commission Studies.

 

Roberts has written several books from an apologetic perspective, most notably on Mormonism, and is known in Europe for his pulpit work in international churches in England, Germany and Belgium. His Ph.D. is from the Free University of Amsterdam, and he also conducted post-graduate research at Oxford University.

PRAY for the

POLAND SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIP 

 October 23-29, 2024

 

           Plan now to join Dr. Roberts and teams on future mission trips.            Learn more at www.fba.org/globalmissions