ABOUT US:
Jerry
R. Sullins, director and instructor,
holds the B.A. degree from Harding University. He served in local works in
the United States for more than twenty years in the states of Tennessee,
Indiana, Alabama and Arkansas. For two and one-half years he served as a
missionary to Kenya, East Africa. During the years of 1988–1994, he
established and directed the Botswana School of Biblical Studies in
Botswana, Africa. The school was moved to Zambia in 1995 where he
established the Zambia School of Biblical Studies and worked with that
effort until February 2003. Presently he is still acting in a supervisory
capacity with the school in Zambia.
DARIN
CHAPPELL, instructor,
is
a 1995 graduate of the Midwestern School of Preaching in Sugar Creek,
Missouri; holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from
Southwest Missouri State University; and a Master of
Public Administration degree from Missouri State University. He has served
as director of the Midwestern School of Preaching Satellite programs in Ohio
and Missouri and has served as evangelist for congregations in Ohio,
Mississippi, and Missouri. He has served as the editor of the quarterly
publication, A Faith of Reason which focused on evangelistic
outreach, spoken on several brotherhood lectureships and in gospel meetings,
and has spent time in Costa Rica and Panamá for the purpose of holding
meetings and teaching advanced Bible classes and Greek studies to Spanish
speaking students. Darin and his wife, Carole Ann, live in Rogersville,
Missouri with two of their three children. Darin currently labors with the
church in Mountain Grove, Missouri.
Ted J. Clarke,
instructor, is a native of Illinois. He is married to Sherrie (Mooney), and
together have three children. He is a graduate of the Memphis School of
Preaching and the Alabama Christian School of Religion (B.A.). He has done
graduate work at the Alabama Christian School of Religion and Harding
Graduate School of Religion. He has labored in local work in Illinois,
Missouri, Indiana, Alabama, and Arkansas and preached in gospel meetings in
thirteen states and Jamaica. He has been an instructor of the Bible
Institute of Missouri since 2004 and is currently laboring with the
church in Marshfield, MO.
Chuck Northrop,
instructor, is a 1976 graduate of the Preston Road School of Preaching in Dallas,
TX under the direction of Eldred Stevens. He has labored in local work in
Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. He has preached in over
twenty states and in five foreign nations — Latvia, Ukraine, Taiwan, Mexico, and
Zambia. He has served as an instructor of the Midwest School of Biblical
Studies in Independence, MO, the Kiev School of Preaching in Kiev, Ukraine
where he also served as the director, and the Oklahoma School of Biblical Studies in
Chandler, OK. He has also taught in the Zambia School of Biblical Studies in Livingstone,
Zambia. Besides his responsibility with the Bible Institute of Missouri, he
also serves as an instructor for the
Online Academy of Biblical Studies. In addition, he has written numerous articles
for bulletins, brotherhood publications, and tracts. He has also authored three
books: "We Can Rest Assured," a study of assurance in 1 John; "Biblically
Speaking about the Church," eighty-eight short articles on the church of the
Bible; and "So Great a Cloud of Witnesses," a study of the great faith
chapter, Hebrews 11.
Kevin Patterson,
part-time
instructor, preaches for the Highway 13 church of Christ in Bolivar,
Missouri. He has served congregations in Texas, Kansas, and Missouri for
over thirteen years. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University where
he holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree in accounting. He has
also done masters work in ministry from Oklahoma Christian University. Kevin
has taught at the Great Plains Bible College in Wichita and Andover, Kansas,
and currently serves as an instructor for the Fishers of Men personal
evangelism course. Kevin is the author of Kevin’s Komments, a weekly
Christian newspaper article, and he is also a frequent speaker on The
Living Word television program in Springfield, Missouri. Kevin and his
wife, Sheri, have four children: Michael (22), John (18), Connor (9), and
Mary (7).
Max Patterson,
instructor, holds an A.A. degree from Freed-Hardeman College, B.A. degree
from Harding University, M.A. degree in New Testament and a Master of
Religious Education from Harding Graduate
School. He has taught at several schools including, Northwest Mississippi
Junior College, Freed-Hardeman College, Bible School of the Ozarks, and the
School of Bible Emphasis. He began preaching as a high school student. He has served in local works in the United States
in the states of Tennessee, Texas and Missouri. He has authored several
tracts and twenty-nine books (mostly outline commentaries). In 1999, he
retired from full time work, but as he has said, "not from work itself."
He serves the Bible Institute of Missouri as Academic Dean.
Ray Sullins,
part-time instructor and evangelist, is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman
University with a B.A. Degree in Bible. He has served in local works in
Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi. Mr. Sullins served as a missionary to
Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia for more than seven years working with the
Botswana School of Biblical Studies as a faculty member and Dean of
Evangelism and at the Zambia School of Biblical Studies where he was a
faculty member and the Assistant Director of the school. After coming back
from Africa he worked for Truth For The World as Director of world-wide
correspondence courses, and since 1998 has served as the evangelist for the
Kansas Expressway Church of Christ in Springfield, Missouri.
ADMISSION TO FACULTY
Admission to the faculty at Bible Institute
of Missouri is
determined on the basis of faithfulness to the cause of Christ, spiritual
readiness, experience, and academic preparation. Further, all prospective
faculty members must be approved by the elders of the Kansas Expressway
Church of Christ.