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Dr. Roy BuckelewProfessor, Speech Communication, Ouachita Baptist University MDiv, Theology with Language, Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary Dr. Roy Buckelew was born in a farm house in rural Oklahoma. His father was a dirt- poor farmer and his mother a school teacher. She taught Dr. Buckelew in grades first through fourth. At age ten, Dr. Buckelew moved to Ada, Oklahoma, where he played baseball for eight years. He surrendered to preach at the age of fifteen and began preaching in area churches immediately. From that time to present, he has averaged preaching five times a week. He graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with majors in Speech and History with a secondary teaching credential. Dr. Buckelew pastored a church during his four years in college. After college, Dr. Buckelew attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and pastored a church there for ten years. He then moved to California and pastored a church for seven years before resigning to enter the graduate program at University of Southern California to pursue a doctoral degree. During his three years in graduate school, Dr. Buckelew did a free-lance ministry of revivals, Bible conferences, Family Life seminars, and singing concerts. Upon graduation, he served for two years at Oklahoma Baptist University at the vice-president level for Public Relations and Church Relations. In 1981, Dr. Buckelew began teaching at Ouachita Baptist University. He took a break from teaching at OBU from 1986-89 to serve as full-time pastor of First Baptist Church Hot Springs. He came back to OBU in 1989. Dr. Buckelew has served as interim pastor for twenty Arkansas churches. Dr. Buckelew is currently the Associate Pastor at Park Hill Baptist Church in Arkadelphia and he and his wife, Louise, own and operate Buckelew's Bed and Breakfast. Dr. Buckelew is available for both workshop presentations and after-dinner speaking. OBU Box 3739
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