Ross receives Campbell’s Reavis
Scholarship
Dr. William L. Ross, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Athens, Ga.,
received Campbell University’s Reavis Scholarship at the 2005 Pastors School
held July 18-21. Approximately 130 ministers throughout the Southeast attend the
annual weeklong event which includes worship, study and fellowship for pastors
and their wives. Endowed by the late Mabel and L.B. Reavis, the Reavis
Scholarship program recognizes pastors who are leading their churches in growth
and evangelism.
A 1978 graduate of Campbell University, Dr. Ross
received a Master of Divinity with Languages and a Doctor of Ministry from
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also studied at Hebrew Union
College in Jerusalem and the North Carolina Baptist School of Pastoral Care in
Winston-Salem. In addition to serving as a pastor at churches in Virginia and
Georgia, Dr. Ross has led numerous mission trips to India that have resulted in
the establishment of two mission churches, medical treatment for hundreds of
people and a home for Indian children. Dr. Ross plans another mission trip this
January to the tea plantation areas of southern India where, due to competition
from China, there is great unemployment and almost no medical care. He will be
accompanied by several physicians and members of the church and community who
will help set up a medical clinic.
“It was a great honor to receive the Reavis
Scholarship,” said Ross, who plans to use the money to purchase books dealing
with evangelism and church growth. “Our society is always changing. We have a
God who loves us no matter what our needs. His message never changes. But the
church must change to communicate that message in a relevant way.”
Dr. Ross and his wife, Mary, are the parents of two
children, a son, Will, and a daughter, Shea.
Photo Copy: Dr. Jerry Wallace,
right, president of Campbell University, presents the Reavis Scholarship to Dr.
William L. Ross, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Athens, Ga., at
Campbell’s 2005 Pastors School recently. (Photo by Todd Scarborough)
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