Mel Walker

Mel Walker serves as Director of Student Ministries at Regular Baptist Press – a position he has held since October 1998. In that role he has led in the complete revision of RBP’s junior high and senior high youth curriculum. He is also the president and is a co-founder of Vision For Youth, Inc., a national network for youth ministry. Mel is a frequent speaker, both nationally and internationally, at youth, family life and parenting conferences. He has organized and led several regional, statewide and national youth conferences and events. He is a graduate of Baptist Bible College (AA & BRE) & Seminary (MMin) in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania and has done graduate work at Iowa State University and Faith Baptist Theological Seminary.

Mel & his wife, Peggy, are the parents of 3 grown children: Kristi (a missionary in Germany), Todd (living at home), and Travis, along with his wife, Kaci (serving as a youth pastor in Michigan.) After serving as a youth pastor for several years, he then taught youth ministry courses at Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Clarks Summit, PA and at Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa. Mel recently published 3 books with RBP on the subjects of youth discipleship, mentoring, and evangelism; 3 booklets with VFY including a devotional strategy for students on developing Biblical convictions – and he has recently co-edited a major anthology of youth ministry from Thomas Nelson Publishers.

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