Ronald D. Gilbert

 

Ronald D. Gilbert has been active in local work since 1973.  He began foreign missions in 1980 and has now preached in more than forty campaigns to twenty nations.   He has written numerous Gospel articles, tracts and booklets and worked twelve years with Tennessee Bible College serving as the Director of Missions.  He was instrumental in establishing the Siamafumba School of Biblical Studies in Zambia.  He began International Bible Teaching Ministries and the International College of the Bible in 2007.  He oversees all aspects of the operations, plans and implements new projects, conducts campaigns, teaches with ICOTB and travels extensively for the work.

 

His work is overseen by:

 

Rock Valley Church of Christ

347 Tooley Ridge Road

Tompkinsville, KY 42167

New Hope Road Church of Christ

PO Box 1334

Dacula, GA 30019

                            

·       Minister, Plainview Church of Christ

·       Field Representative, IBTM

·       Q & A, IBTM

·       Q & A, “Good News Today” 

·       Instructor, ICOTB

 

David Amos retired from a career in Industrial Engineering in 1992, and began a new one in missions.  In the last twenty-plus years he has been on numerous campaigns, taught at the Knoxville Christian School for ten, and is currently involved with a prison ministry.  He has also written a book, “Bible Answers to Commonly Asked Questions”, which deals with over 1,100 Bible questions.  He joined the work of International Bible Teaching Ministries in 2011 answering questions from the web and students.  In 2014 he added the duties of instructor to distance learning students.

 

John Chowning

 

John Chowning taught elementary school for 17 years plus in the Northeast Bible Institute in India for 9 different summers.  He has preached for more than 30 years in both the US and England, and is the administrator for 2 Facebook pages focused on spreading the gospel:  Read the Word (a weekly devotional) and It Is Written (video sermons, found on Facebook at itiswrittenfw).  He began teaching with IBTM's online program in 2012 and joined the ICOTB staff in 2017.

 

Fred Clayton

 

Fred Clayton has preached for 34 years and taught at the Chattanooga School of Preaching since it began in 1999.  He joined the staff of ICOTB in 2017.

 

     

 

Ron E. Gilbert

 

Charles F. Hannah

 

Charles F. Hannah worked with the State of Tennessee for 32 years, including 16 years as an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Case Manager.  He currently works with the state prison system responsible for the mental health of inmates but also does private counseling.  He has preached part-time for more than 20 years.  He joined the staff of ICOTB in 2014 to teach the counseling curriculum.

 

William Howard

 

Bronson Roper

·       Internet, IBTM/ICOTB

 

Bronson Roper hales from Texas where he earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Texas A & M – Commerce, but he quickly traded states when he met his future wife online.  Now he juggles work, family, and staying active with the local congregation.  He has joined two campaigns to Costa Rica and another Stateside.  He began helping International Bible Teaching Ministries part-time with special online projects in 2015 and added coordinating postal students in 2016.

 

 

Rod Rutherford

 

Rod Rutherford has been preaching for fifty-five years and has also served the Lord’s church as an elder, editor, and educator, having taught in five schools of preaching.  His mission experience includes seven years in Zambia, seven years in Australia, and more than twenty-five campaigns to sixteen nations. He helped begin the multi-media mission work of Truth for   the World and worked there fourteen years as its Publication Editor.  He has also written numerous articles, tracts, books and Bible correspondence courses, including three of the courses available in the IBTM online study.  He joined the staff of International College of the Bible in 2013 as an instructor to distance learning students.

 

Rod Rutherford Books:   http://www.rodrutherfordbooks.com/

 

William L. Schwegler

Rusty Stark

 

Rusty Stark has been active in local work since 1978 and has now served the Benton Harbor congregation for more than eighteen years.  He began foreign missions in 1993 with a campaign to Russia and has been making trips to Zambia with the IBTM team since 2008.  He has also written numerous articles published in brotherhood magazines.  He joined the International College of the Bible staff in 2013 as an instructor to distance learning students.

 

~  In Memoriam  ~

 

Jimmie B. Hill

1953 - 2012

 

Jimmie B. Hill was devoted to spreading the Gospel and served the kingdom as an evangelist, elder, editor, teacher, author and missionary.  He preached for thirty years, served five years as a missionary to the Samoan islands, conducted countless campaigns to sixteen nations, and wrote numerous tracts and articles.  He worked with Truth for the World for eleven years overseeing the Bible correspondence course program and added Director of Publications to his duties the last five.  In 2010 he joined the work of International Bible Teaching Ministries as Co-Director and Vice-President of International College of the Bible.  Jimmie often stated that Christians should be the happiest people in the world because they know where they are going.  He passed into eternity in 2012 with complete trust in His Lord. 

 

The Jimmie B. Hill Memorial Library has been established in his memory.

 

 

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