Staff

Ken Davis, BBS Director of Church Planting,, has been involved in church planting for over 25 years. As a MK in Guyana, he helped his dad start new churches. As a college student he led an inner city outreach which resulted in a church. As a Baptist Mid-Missions missionary, Ken directed two growing church plants in the African American community in Indianapolis. He has served as chairman of BMM's North American Church Planting Ministry Council and co-founded the School of Church Planting, which has trained over 300 church planters worldwide.Ken comes to BBS after serving 19 years as the missions professor at Baptist Bible College of Indianapolis (now Crossroads Bible College), a school specializing in training leaders to reach multi-ethnic urban America. He has also led mission trips to Guyana, Mexico, and Ghana. A strategist as well as a practitioner, Ken has contributed to the Practical Guide to Church Planting and coauthored the newly published The Y-B-H Handbook of Church Planting. Ken is completing a D.MIN. in missiology at Trinity Evangelical School, Deerfield, IL where his major project has focused upon “The Design of a Church Planting Internship for Seminarians that is Local Church Based and Mentor Led." With both a passion for and much practical experience in church planting, Ken has a burning desire to equip men to be effective church planters. His particular vision is to reach urban/ethnic America for Christ and to mobilize harvesters for the truly unreached peoples of our world. Coming to BBS, you will be challenged as you learn under his teaching and work alongside him in a church planting effort.

Dr. Howard Bixby, Project Jerusalem founder, continues to serve as a consultant to our church plants and Seminary planting teams. He brings a lifelong interest and wealth of experience in outreach, church growth, and leadership to Project Jerusalem. In 19 years of pastoral ministry at Calvary Baptist Church of Grand Rapids, MI, he specialized in church education, discipling, and outreach. Dr. Bixby served for 22 years as the dean of Baptist Bible Seminary and is now involved in a coaching/consultation ministry to many local churches and pastors. Dr. Bixby is known for his commitment to evangelism, church planting, and mentoring ministry professionals. His conference ministry has touched thousands of pastors, deacons, church leaders and the world. His courses and writings have been instrumental in motivating and mobilizing many.