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He is the pastor of Community Fellowship Baptist Church in Hickory, Kentucky. He is married to Amanda and they have four children. He completed the M.Div. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Seminary.
View Allen’s recently published article with the Baptist Review here: https://www.thebaptistreview.com/editorial/what-is-a-pastor-a-taxonomy-for-the-sbc

Chad Davidson is the Assistant Professor of Music at Summit Christian University. He is married to Kim Davidson and they have two adult children, Reagan and Andrew.  Mr. Davidson has a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music Education from Murray State Universtiy, and he has a Master of Adminstration-Principal Certification Degree from Campbellsville University.  He also attended Liberty University,  where he took his ministry and bible courses. 
Mr. Davidson is currently serving as the music teacher at Lone Oak Elementary in the McCracken County Public School system. While at Lone Oak Elementary, he received the Kentucky Music Educators Association First District Elementary Music Teacher of the Year for 2021-2022.  He was elected to serve as the President of the McCracken County Education Association, serving the professional educators of McCracken County Public Schools. Additionally, Mr. Davidson was elected to serve as the President of the First District Education Association representing professional educators from all across the First District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was also selected to serve on the Kentucky Department of Education’s Teachers Advisory Council, working with leaders in Frankfort to enhance education all across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
Mr. Davidson has led Worship Ministry for over 30 years.  Serving in both full-time and bi-vocational roles, Mr. Davidson has served as Minister of Music and Worship, Youth Pastor, Children’s Pastor, and Associate Pastor. Currently, he serves as the Minister of Music and Worship at Friendship Baptist Church in the Lone Oak area of Paducah, Kentucky. 

Article Published: “Movie Music in the Classroom” Bluegrass Music News Fall 2009. 

BS in Biological Sciences from Lee University in Cleveland, TN, MA in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, MS and PhD in Public Health: Epidemiology from Walden University.

I am originally from Janesville, WI and have lived in Cleveland, TN, Colorado Springs, CO, Elizabethtown, KY, and currently live in Mayfield, KY.  Right now, I teach various science classes at St Mary HS in Paducah as well as Biology and Environmental Science at SCU.

I have worked in both public and private schools and have worked for a few ministries, Focus on the Family being the most recognized. I enjoy old comedies, or newer comedies making fun of older shows (MST3K). My dissertation entitled “Exploring the Role of Faith in Survival of Breast Cancer” has been published and is available for viewing at ScholarWorks. I have recently gotten married to a wonderful Filipina woman and am enjoying life with her. 

Holds an MA and BA from Murray State University in literature, foreign language, and speech communication. In addition to serving as an instructor for Summit University, she has taught as an adjunct instructor for Murray State University, the Kentucky Institute for European Studies, and West Kentucky Community and Technical College. She has also served as a tutor with WKCTC’s TRIO program, works one-on-one with behavioral patients at Mercy Health Lourdes, and has worked with an outreach mission in Honduras (hospital, school, and children’s center) for over 20 years (www.crstone.org). Sally also has experience in teaching debate, logic, and persuasion. Additionally, she serves in nursing home ministry and her local church. She enjoys theatre, the outdoors, history, and art. Sally lives in Paducah with her husband Joe, a mathematics professor, and they have three grown children. View Sally’s reflections on her Food for Thought page: https://www.wordsforlivingministries.com/food-for-thought-from-sally.html.
 

Kim Reeder lives in Murray, KY with his wife, Jennifer, two sons, Thomas and Joshua, and their three dogs, Max, Hank, and Snowball. He is currently the pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Murray. He has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Mid Continent Baptist Bible College (Mid Continent University), a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Memphis, TN, and a Master of Theology (Th.M) degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. He is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program studying missiology and church history at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Kim has served in various capacities throughout his ministry in churches in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. He has participated in supply preaching, street evangelism, urban apartment ministry, juvenal detention and jail ministry, door to door evangelism, coaching “Upward” basketball, short term home and international missions, youth ministry, music ministry, and has pastored two churches, one in Arkansas and Kentucky. He spent three summers engaged in short term trips to Idaho, Nevada, and Boston. He has travelled to Mexico, India, and Guatemala and led small teams on mission trips as well. Visiting all 50 states is on his bucket list, and he has six more to go. His writings have appeared in “On Mission” magazine, Arkansas Faith and Family, Kentucky Today, and has written numerous opinion and editorial columns for the Arkansas Baptist News and the Murray Ledger and Times. His self-published book “30 Days to Freedom: Meditations in Galatians” is available for purchase on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess, watching movies, reading, and spending time with his family. 

Dr. Watkins is a full time faculty member who teaches both psychology and Christian ministry. He has been with SCU since its founding.

He is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and earned an M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and a D.Min. from the Orlando campus of RTS. He pursued PhD studies in history and theology at Westminster Theological Seminary’s London campus and studied graduate level psychology courses at three different schools.

He previously taught at Warner Southern College (now Warner University), Mid-Continent University and WKCTC.

Dr. Watkins was ordained to the ministry in 1985 and has planted three churches, two in Vero Beach, FL and one in Paducah, KY (New Geneva Community Church) where he currently pastors. He has also served in the field of drug counseling and hospice chaplaincy/counseling.

He became interested in teaching while leading a young adult Sunday school class in 1975 at Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Ft. Lauderdale, where he had been converted under the preaching of Dr. D. James Kennedy. He has been teaching ever since.

Two main influences in his ministry are Dr Larry Crabb in the psychology area, and in theology, Dr RC Sproul.

He is married to Ann and has six children and eight grandchildren.

Jason has always had a passion for education. He has taught for 15 years at the university level, and the last four years, he has been the full-time Program Coordinator of the Business Administration Program at WKCTC.  Jason is currently working on his dissertation as he works towards his doctorate degree in educational leadership with a specialization in educational technology.  Jason is also working on a special project with the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education helping with their graduate profile project.  Providing servant leadership to his students is his number one priority. 

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