Crusade For Christ Speaker

Dr. Jack Evans, Sr.President of Southwestern Christian College

Crusade for Christ Speaker

Jack Evans is a native of Houston, Texas. He was baptized into the church of Christ in 1953 at the age of fifteen by the late Paul Settles. He began preaching at the age of sixteen. After attending the public schools of Houston for nine years, he transferred to the Nashville Christian Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, of which the eminent Marshall Keeble was president at this time. He graduated from this high school in 1957. He then enrolled in Southwestern Christian College, a junior college, of Terrell, Texas, from which he graduated in 1959. He served as the associate minister of the College Church of Christ while attending Southwestern.

After graduating from Southwestern Christian College, Jack Evans enrolled in Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, majoring in History and Religion. He graduated from this university in 1961. He preached for a small congregation in Hale Center, Texas, while attending college in New Mexico. Upon graduation from this university he began graduate work in History and English at the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas (Texas Western College at the time), in 1961, receiving his MA degree in 1963. His MA thesis was entitled "The History of Southwestern Christian College of Terrell, Texas." He was minister of the Cebada Street Church of Christ in El Paso while attending the university. He has had conferred upon him the Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degrees by Harding University, Pepperdine University, and Abilene Christian University.

After serving for a short time as minister of the Vickery Boulevard Church of Christ in Fort Worth, Texas, he became dean of his college alma mater, Southwestern Christian College, in 1963. He served in this capacity and as instructor in History for four years, from 1963 to 1967. In 1967 he was appointed President of Southwestern Christian College, thus becoming the first black president of the only predominantly black Christian college among churches of Christ. He is presently serving in this capacity. The college became fully accredited under his administration in 1973. He is listed in Who's Who in American College and University Administration and Who's Who in Texas Today. He is a member of the Board of Directors of David Lipscomb University.

Jack Evans has spoken on all the major lectureships of Christian colleges and in special seminars and meetings on other college campuses. He conducts gospel meetings and crusades in churches of Christ throughout the nation, and has participated in a number of religious debates.

He is the author/editor of the Evans‑Barr Debate, The Curing of Ham, The Cross or the Crescent?, Sermons that Save, Sinai or Sion?, The Two Covenants, And They Shall Speak With New Tongues?, "Fire It Up..." Again!, Farrakhan: Million‑Man Manipulator, Christian Response to the Muslim Challenge, Amen, Walls!, Status of Women in Islam, Whose Idea is This?, and co‑author with Dr. James Maxwell, of Divorce and Remarriage, and with G. P. Holt, of Sermons of the Crusades.

Jack Evans is married to the former Patricia Officer of Nashville, Tennessee. They have three sons: Jack Jr., Herbert Raye, and David Paul. They also have four grandchildren.

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