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Contact Information
The CWM faculty and staff consists of:
Dr. Monte Cox, director
Dr. Ross Cochran, professor
Marvin Crowson, domestic missionary in residence
Dr. Shawn Daggett, associate professor
Dr. Allen Diles, associate professor
Ken Graves, director of Global Outreach
Gordon Hogan, missionary in residence
Dr. Van Rackley counselor
Dr. Bill Richardson, associate professor
Oneal Tankersley, missionary in residence
Dr. Monte Cox, director
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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Shawn Daggett, associate professor
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.
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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.
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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.
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Gordon Hogan, missionary in residence
e-mail ghogan@harding.edu
Gordon began preaching in 1958 and since then has served in long-term mission efforts in Pakistan and Singapore. He has worked in mission programs of Harding University, Freed-Hardeman University and Oklahoma Christian University. Since 1994 he has served as Missionary in Residence at Harding, where he teaches courses in missions and textual Bible and directs HOPE, a mission apprentice recruiting and placement program. He continues yearly mission efforts to Singapore, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
His goals: to help students recognize their role in sharing the good news of salvation in Christ throughout the world, and equip them to do so.
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Dr. Vann Rackley
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.
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Dr. Bill Richardson, professor
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.
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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.
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