James Walker, the president of Watchman Fellowship, is a former fourth generation Mormon…
Education
Rev. Walker holds a BA in Biblical Studies and an MA in Theology (Summa cum Laude) from The Criswell College in Dallas… He is an ordained Baptist minister and a member of the Society for the Study of Alternative Religions,* Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, and the Evangelical Press Association.*
Note: The following web page illustrates the ties EMNR has to other parallel organizations as illustrated in this joint meeting with three other organizations:
Evangelical Missiological Society
"Representatives of the Evangelical Missiological Society,* the Evangelical Theological Society, the Society for the Study of Alternative Religions and
Evangelical Ministries to New Religions met in Nashville to discuss the challenge of new religious movements to world evangelism, and to lay a foundation for future dialogue and cooperation."
Contact given for EMS: Rich Poll of Apologia -- richpoll@apologia.org
The National Officers at Evangelical Missiological Society [partial listing]
EMS President - Kenneth B. Mulholland, Columbia International University Seminary - ATS member*
EMS Executive V.P. Tom Steffen, Biola University - ATS member EMS V.P. Publications Kenneth Gill - Billy Graham Center
EMS V.P. Membership/Finance - Elizabeth Lightbody, Moody Bible Institute EMS Regional V.P. Southeast - Enoch Wan, Reformed Theological Seminary - ATS member
*ATS member = member of Association of Theological Schools
Rich Poll [Board of Directors EMNR] worked previously at CRI [Hank Hanegraff].
Poll's wife Pamela serves on the Board of Directors of Apologia with others who worked previously at CRI - Paul Carden and Ron Rhodes. She recently received a 2000 Award for Excellence from Evangelical Press Association for her work as art director at Navigators/NavPress.
Evangelical Press Association.
[returning to Watchman President James Walker…]
Media
In addition to network television, Rev. Walker has been interviewed as an authority on alternative religions and cults on numerous nationwide Christian radio programs. These include Truths that Transform with Dr. D. James Kennedy's [CNP], Hope for the Heart, with June Hunt, OpenLine with Kirby Anderson [Probe Ministries] on the Moody Broadcasting Network, and Marlin Maddoux's Point of View [CNP]. He also hosted a video training program on witnessing to Mormons for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association [Lausanne].
Bob Waldrep
Alabama State Director
He also currently serves as executive director of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions (EMNR) an umbrella organization of Christian discernment and apologetic organizations similar to Watchman Fellowship.
Dick Baer
Missionary / Researcher
Dick Baer is a former Mormon Melchizedek priest who is considered to be one of the leading Christian authorities on the Mormon faith. After leaving the Mormon Church and becoming a Christian, Mr. Baer founded Ex-Mormons and Christian Alliance (EMCA), an evangelical Christian ministry reaching out to Mormons with the true gospel. EMCA recently merged with TruthQuest Institute.* Dick began full-time Christian ministry in 1981 and has given over 2,500 presentations in approximately 2,000 churches throughout the US and internationally. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah with a B.S. in sociology.
Note: TruthQuest is a member of EMNR and therefore is a signatory of the Lausanne Covenant.
Don Malin Missionary
In 1982, he began graduate studies at Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS). While at BTS Don met Craig Branch* who was in the process of launching Watchman
fellowship's Birmingham office. Don began working with Craig in a support staff roll speaking in churches and reaching out to those involved in cults and false doctrine.
…in 1988 he completed degree Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS)- ATS member
Note: Craig Branch is no longer listed as a staff member of Watchman Fellowship, however, he is on the Board of Directors for EMNR.
Tim Martin Missionary
…In 1995 he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he is now the director of the Illinois office. His ministry includes personal witnessing, corresponding, evangelism training, street preaching and consultation
Tim is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute with a degree in Bible Theology. He plans to pursue a graduate degree at Wheaton Graduate School.
John Morehead Missionary / Researcher
John is a former member of the Reorganized Latter-day Saints. He has over ten years of experience in researching, writing and teaching on cults and various new religious movements. John is an adjunct faculty member at Capital Bible College, does substitute teaching at Trinity Life Bible College, both in Sacramento, CA, and is a board member for Evangelical Ministries to New Religions.
Timothy Oliver Researcher
… The son of a Seventh-day Adventist minister, he received parts of his education in SDA parochial schools. Rejecting that whole system, he delved briefly into Scientology, then spent three years involved with Vedanta (a strain of Hinduism, and foundational to the philosophy of the New Age Movement). After praying about the Book of Mormon he received a spiritual “testimony” of its truthfulness which he (mistakenly) believed was from the Holy Ghost. He accepted Mormonism as true and was baptized into the Mormon church, in which he was a devout believer for ten years.
He served in numerous callings in both the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods of Mormonism. As a “temple Mormon,” he did work for the dead in five different Mormon temples. He also served as a Mormon missionary in France and Switzerland. He was given an “honorable release” from his mission four months early, after asking the mission president questions on Mormon doctrine and history.
Timothy left Mormonism in June, 1981, and was born again as a Christian three months later. In 1984 he began missionary outreach to Mormons in Arizona, hosting a half-hour radio broadcast called “The Mormon Question.” In 1986 two Arizona churches sent him as a missionary to Utah. In 1988 he joined Watchman Fellowship and served as the Utah Director for more than seven years before moving to join the headquarters staff in Arlington, Texas.
… He also served on the Elder Board at the Evangelical Free Church of Salt Lake City, where for years he taught a Sunday school class on understanding and evangelizing Mormons.
…He is now responsible for evangelism equipping seminars at Watchman’s Arlington office, and also teaches in churches, colleges and universities. He is Director of Research Services, responsible for maintaining Watchman’s voluminous library and files. He oversees annual missions projects in the U.S., especially in Utah…
Bob Waldrep
Alabama State Director
…He also currently serves as executive director of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions (EMNR) an umbrella organization of Christian discernment and apologetic organizations similar to Watchman Fellowship.
… he serves as Ministries Coordinator in Watchman's Alabama office. …Bob has been tasked with developing and designing training and educational curricula. [emphasis added]