Contact Information

The CWM faculty and staff consists of:

Mark Berryman, Missionary in Residence
Dr. Monte Cox, Dean of the College of Bible and Religion
Dr. Ross Cochran, Professor
Marvin Crowson, Domestic Missionary in Residence
Dr. Shawn Daggett, Director of the Center for World Missions
Dr. Allen Diles, Associate Professor
Ken Graves, Director of Global Outreach
Dr. Van Rackley Counselor
Dr. Bill Richardson, Director of the Center for Advanced Ministry Training
Oneal Tankersley, Missionary in Residence

Dr. Shawn Daggett, Director of the Center for World Missions e-mail sdaggett@harding.edu Shawn has served as a missionary to Bergamo, Italy from 1986 to 1996 after which he began teaching at Harding. Shawn has also worked extensively in the New England states, serving with the Natick, MA church and in directing the Ganderbrook Bible Camp. Shawn teaches courses in missions history, anthropology, European missions, and New Testament. His goals: to inspire and challenge students to participate in God's mission of salvation to the whole world and to recruit, prepare, and equip individuals and teams to effectively communicate the gospel in Europe, Eastern Europe, and New England.
Dr. Monte Cox, Dean of the College of Bible and Religion e-mail mcox@harding.edu Monte served as missionary to Kenya from 1982 to 1992, when he began teaching full-time at Harding University. He presently serves as Director of Center for World Missions at Harding and also teaches courses in missions, anthropology, world religions, North American culture and textual Bible. His goals: recruiting/training mission teams for receptive cities of the world; exposing students to ministry opportunities in the US and equipping them for sharing their faith; participating in revitalization of the movement to be a minister of reconciliation wherever he is.
Mark Berryman, Missionary in Residence
Dr. Ross Cochran, Professor e-mail rcochran@harding.edu Ross served as a missionary in Limerick, Ireland, served as associate minister for Holmes Rd. Church of Christ in Memphis, TN until 1986 when he began teaching full-time for Harding University. He teaches courses in Vocational Christian Ministry, New Testament Church, Life of Christ, Gospel of John, and OT Survey. He sponsors Tentmakers, a student organization designed to mobilize people to do ministry through and beyond their vocational careers. His goals: leading more students to adopt vocational ministry as a second major; establishing and maintaining communication between individuals and congregations so that domestic ministry opportunities can be staffed; recruiting and training vocational ministry teams comprised of university students.
Marvin Crowson, Domestic Missionary in Residence e-mail mcrowson@harding.edu Marvin served as a missionary in Jamaica for 9 years with a team he helped form at Harding. He has also served the Lord's church in numerous ways in AR, OK, TX, CO, FL, and AL. His goals: to recruit, equip, place and support vocational individuals and teams in major population centers within the continental U.S. in order to plant new churches or take proactive roles in existing congregations.
Dr. Allen Diles, Associate Professor e-mail rdiles@harding.edu After graduating from Harding with a degree in Business Management, Allen made the decision to become a full-time missionary. He served in Prague, Czech Republic for a total of twelve years (1990-91; 1994-2005) doing church planting and leadership training. While in Prague Allen completed his doctorate in Church History/Historical Theology at Charles University. Allen currently is teaching Biblical text courses and plans to add courses in missions and church history. His goals: to inspire students to become God's people doing God's work in the places where God desires, to challenge students, regardless of their academic majors, to participate in God's mission of salvation to the whole world, and to recruit, prepare, and equip individuals and teams to effectively communicate the gospel in central and eastern Europe.
Ken Graves, Director of Global Outreach e-mail kgraves@harding.edu After serving as a church planter in Brasil for 18 years, Ken joined the CWM faculty to direct the Global Outreach summer mission program.  Ken also teaches first year Bible classes in Spanish for the Walton Scholars program. His goals: Increase participation of Harding students in world missions whether it be by going or by helping to send those who will go.
Dr. Vann Rackley, Counselor e-mail rackley@harding.edu Vann has been working with missionaries for the past nine years as a teacher in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy. This involves counseling mission teams preparing to go to a work, those on the field, and also those preparing to return to the United States. Vann also counsels individual missionaries and missionary family as well.
Dr. Bill Richardson, Director of the Center for Advanced Ministry Training e-mail brichardson@harding.edu Bill has served as a missionary in Guatemala, Argentina and Chile. He has worked part-time with Spanish speaking churches in Texas and Arkansas for 10+ years. He began teaching full-time at Harding University in 1995. He teaches courses in Missionary Preparation, Church Planting, Latin American Seminar in Missions, Missionary Anthropology and textual Bible. His goals: Promoting research of under-evangelized areas of Latin America and raising teams for these areas; preparing to equip US churches who want to reach Latin Americans in the US; helping with the growth of a viable congregation of Hispanic Americans in Searcy, AR.
Oneal Tankersley, Missionary in Residence e-mail otankersley@harding.edu Oneal has served as a missionary in Eldoret, Kenya for 20 years where he was part of a church planting team among the Kalenjin and Swahili speaking peoples there. Oneal uses his experience in the field of "development ministry" to direct the HUT missions training facility. He also produces Christian teaching videos for Africa and Haiti. His goals: to teach students in principles of development ministry and to use video technology to promote missions training locally and Christian teaching in foreign mission efforts.