Dr. Avery T. Willis Jr.

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  Dr. Avery Willis
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  A renowned speaker and conference leader, Dr. Willis is the executive director of International Orality Network.He serves as ambassador-at-large for the Avery T. Willis Center for Global Outreach at Oklahoma Baptist University.Willis and his wife, Shirley, served as missionaries in Indonesia for 14 years.Among the numerous books he has written, Willis co-authored On Mission with God with Henry Blackaby.He also created the well-regarded MasterLife discipleship materials while serving as president of Indonesian Baptist Theological Seminary.Additionally, Dr. Willis is a former pastor and previous senior vice president of the International Mission Board.

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  Avery T. Willis Jr. Director Executive Director, International Orality Network

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  In the third edition of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Avery Willis and Henry Blackaby say, "God is on a mission."They say, "You cannot be in a relationship with Jesus and not be part of that mission."
  
  On knowing God's will Willis and Blackaby write, "Since all true mission is really God on his mission, there is not a different mission for you, for me, or for the people who lived a thousand years ago. . . . God's mission is to glorify His name, to establish His kingdom, and to reconcile the world to Himself."
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  Willis and Blackaby say, "Learning to follow God's ways may be more important than making sincere attempts to do His will."
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  Henry T. Blackaby and Avery T. Willis serve with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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  Avery is the Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations at the International Mission Board.

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  -- Avery Willis, retired vice president of the SBC International Mission Board, who received 962 votes (16.43 percent).

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  Avery Willis, MasterLife author and former president of the Indonesian Baptist Seminary in Semarang, Indonesia, was third with 962 votes, or 16.43 percent.

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  Frank Cox received 1,286 votes (21.96 percent); Avery Willis, 962 votes (16.43 percent); William (Bill) Wagner, 255 votes (4.35 percent); Les Puryear, 188 votes (3.21 percent); and Wiley Drake, 45 votes (.77 percent).
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  AVERY WILLIS
  
  Willis should be elected SBC president because of his longtime service as an International Mission Board missionary and his significant contributions to discipleship as author of the MasterLife curriculum, said John Marshall, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo.
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  "Faced with a daunting challenge of training new believers and new church leaders, Avery, as the president of Indonesia Baptist Seminary, pioneered innovative ways that later became MasterLife, which has now been translated into 50 languages and has blessed millions of people worldwide, including most of us in this room," Marshall said of the IMB's former senior vice president of overseas operations.
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  Marshall said the zeal Willis has for revival, discipleship, the Cooperative Program and the Great Commission qualify him to be president.
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  "If we elect him, Avery will become the first lifelong, Cooperative Program-sponsored career missionary to serve as our president," Marshall said.

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  Five candidates in addition to Hunt were nominated for president: Frank Cox, pastor of North Metro First Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Ga.; Avery Willis, retired senior vice president of overseas operations for the SBC's International Mission Board; William (Bill) Wagner, president of Olivet International University in San Francisco; Les Puryear, pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church in Lewisville, N.C.; and Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif.
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  Out of the 5,856 ballots cast for president, Hunt received 3,100 votes (52.94 percent); Cox, 1,286 (21.96 percent); Willis, 962 (16.43 percent); Wagner, 255 (4.35 percent); Puryear, 188 (3.21 percent); and Drake, 45 (.77 percent).

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  Information from the Annual Church Profile for the congregation of which Willis is a member, Bella Vista Ark.
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  All totaled, Willis spent years in missionary service, retiring from the IMB in February.
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  BP Former missionary Avery Willis will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC's June annual meeting in Indianapolis, John Marshall, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo.
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  Avery Willis to be SBC president nominee.
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  Willis left LifeWay in to become the International Mission Board's senior vice president of overseas operations during a time of expansion and strategy changes in the Southern Baptist missionary endeavor.VIDEO Clinton supporters claim win in Hoosier state.
  
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  Willis holds a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Baptist Bbw, Shawnee, Okla.
  
  This past year we reported, new churches.Willis served as pastor of three churches in Oklahoma and Texas before he and his wife began their missionary service.
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  Avery Willis to be SBC president nominee. .

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  Dr. Avery Willis, former Senior VP of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that Perspectives provides "believers with the finest overview of God's worldwide work available.

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  Avery Willis va a ser nominado para presidente de la CBS
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  Avery Willis
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  Willis, quizá mejor conocido por crear los materiales de discipulado MasterLife mientras servía como presidente del Seminario Teológico Bautista de Indonesia en Semarang, Indonesia, fue primero comisionado como misionero de la Junta de Misión Internacional en Indonesia, junto con su esposa, Shirley, en 1964.Trabajó como evangelista y desarrollador de iglesias durante seis años antes de ser transferido al seminario en Semarang, donde sirvió en la facultad dos años y como presidente seis años.
  
  Durante su servicio allá, la nación del sudoeste experimentó un reavivamiento en el cual 2 millones de personas le dieron su corazón a Cristo.El gran número de convertidos impulsó a Willis a explorar estrategias innovadoras para la educación por extensión y condujo la forma de desarrollar el prototipo que se convertiría en el proceso disciplinario MasterLife.Durante los siguientes 15 años como cabeza del departamento de discipulado de Recursos Cristianos LifeWay, MasterLife fue traducido a más de 50 idiomas y usado en más de 100 países.
  
  "Yo no sé de nadie más amado y respetado que Avery Willis," dijo Marshall.

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