Robert Ashcraft

The publications listed with Amazon are the fruit of a 59-year ministry as a pastor, educator and author.

Dr. Ashcraft received the GBL degree from the Missionary Baptist Seminary, the B. A. from Baptist Christian College and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees from East Texas State University.

He has pastored Missionary Baptist Churches in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Florida.

He served on the faculty of Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK as Associate Professor of English; as Academic Vice-President for Baptist Christian College, Shreveport, LA and Florida Baptist College, Lakeland, FL.

He was a charter member (1974) of the History and Archives Committee of the American Baptist Association and is currently Vice-Chairman. He has been Chairman of the Arkansas History and Archives Committee since 1987.

In 1985 he and his wife returned to Mabelvale, AR to devote full-time to the writing ministry.

He owns the distinction of having edited a history of the local Pine Bluff Association, the State Association of Arkansas, and the American Baptist Association.

The publications dealing with ecclesiology are from the Landmark Baptist position, which emphasizes the nature of the churches as being exclusively local and independent congregations, which choose to fellowship with other churches of like faith and order in missions, publications and Christian education.

The picture shows the author signing a copy of Contending for the Faith: An Updated History of the Baptist, which was released at the 2006 meeting of the American Baptist Association in Daytona Beach, FL.