Discipleship: From Neurons to Nations Lecture 2

Dr. William R. “Rick” Yount served as Professor of Educational Ministries at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth for thirty-one years, from 1981 to 2012, and later served for seven years at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, from 2012 to 2019. He now serves in retirement as Adult Sunday School Specialist for Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth, where he leads weekly preparatory meetings for lay teachers. Earlier in his ministry, he served as minister to the deaf at Columbia Baptist Church from 1970 to 1973 and at First Baptist Church in Irving, Texas, from 1973 to 1976, and later as minister of education in five Southern Baptist Convention churches from 1976 to 1995. From 1995 to 2019, Dr. Yount traveled extensively on short-term teaching assignments to Baptist seminaries in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Cuba. During these years, he also led numerous local church and state convention conferences focused on discipling adults through Bible study. He is the author of several widely used textbooks in educational ministry, including Created to Learn, Called to Teach, and The Teaching Ministry of the Church. He has also authored dozens of articles, chapters, and essays on the teaching ministry of the church. Dr. Yount made his profession of faith and was baptized at First Baptist Church in Rockville, Indiana, in 1954, surrendered to full-time ministry at Trinity Baptist Church in El Paso, Texas, in 1962, and was ordained to the gospel ministry at Columbia Baptist Church in Falls Church, Virginia, in 1977. He and his wife, Barb, were married in 1969 and have two children and five grandchildren who are active in their respective churches. Dr. Yount holds earned Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of North Texas, with advanced study in foundations of education, educational research, and statistics.