Dr. William E. Gordon, Jr.

Guest Presenter

Dr. Bill Gordon provides research, evangelism, and training throughout North America in the areas of alternative religions, new religious movements, cults, the occult, and world religions.

In addition to being a guest speaker for Watchman Fellowship, Dr. Gordon is currently serving on the staff of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as an Associate with the Interfaith Evangelism Team.

Previously, he was a national missionary serving as regional director in the Northeast, also for the Interfaith Witness Department.

Bill has also served on staff at the Home Mission Board from 1988-89 as the Assistant Director, Interfaith Witness Department and pastored churches in South Carolina, Louisiana and Maryland.

He was born in Pensacola, Florida, and graduated from Louisiana State University, The Criswell College and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Bill and his wife, Patricia, have three sons.

Factual Data

Birth: October 8, 1953, Pensacola, Florida
Education: Louisiana State University, Shreveport, La., 1975, B.S.
The Criswell College, Dallas, Tex., 1978, M. Min.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary., New Orleans, La., 1979, M. Div.; 1987, Th. D.

Family: Wife: Patricia Ann Peale Gordon
Children: three

Experience: Pastor, Smoaks Baptist Church, S.C., 1980 82
Pastor, Hooper Rd. Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, La., 1982 86
Pastor, Cockeysville Baptist Church, Maryland, 1986 88
Assistant Director, Interfaith Witness Department, HMB, Atlanta, Ga., 1988 89
National Missionary, HMB, Atlantic Coast Regional Director, Interfaith Witness Dept., 1989-94
Associate Director, Interfaith Witness Department, HMB, Atlanta, Ga., 1995-97
Associate, Interfaith Witness Evangelism Team, NAMB, Alpharetta, Ga., 1997-

About Watchman Fellowship

Watchman Fellowship, founded in 1979, is one of America's largest Christian ministries providing research, education, and outreach for individuals involved with new religious movements, cults, and the occult. With offices in eight states, Watchman Fellowship maintains a research library of over 50,000 cataloged resources (including books, periodicals, media, and files) and an award-winning web site, www.watchman.org.

Teaching in hundreds of churches, colleges, and universities annually, the ministry equips tens of thousands of people to understand biblical Christianity as contrasted with controversial, counterfeit, or destructive religions.

Watchman Fellowship is recognized by the media as as providing trusted experts in the field of controversial religion. Watchman Fellowship has been featured in interviews on Nightline, World News Tonight, The News Hour, with Jim Lehrer, and USA Today.