The 7th Annual
Stagg-Tolbert Forum
for Biblical Studies

Saturday, October 16, 2010
Emmanuel Baptist Church -- Alexandria

Dr. Terry York

Terry W. York has been Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music at Truett Theological Seminary since 1998. He joined the faculty after serving three years as the Associate Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, TX. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist College (now University) and his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

He has been Minister of Music in churches in California and Arizona. From 1984-1995 he served at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN. His duties there included being the Project Coordinator for The Baptist Hymnal, 1991. In all, Dr. York has published more than 40 hymns including the well-known Worthy of Worship. His hymn Give Us Courage was commissioned by the Truett Seminary administration and approved by the Truett Seminary faculty as the official Seminary Hymn in 2006. In addition to his hymns, Dr. York has published more than 60 choral anthem texts set by composers such as Bob Burroughs, David Danner, Tom Fettke, Benjamin Harlan, Mary McDonald, Earlene Rentz, David Schwoebel, Joseph Martin, and Vicki Hancock Wright.

The Voice of Our Congregation, co-authored with David Bolin (Abingdon Press, 2005), will soon be the third of Dr. York's books to have been translated into Chinese. In June 2008 it was his privilege to be one of two featured plenary speakers at The World Association of Chinese Church Musicians' biannual conference which met in Kuching, Malaysia. In June 2009, the Baptist Church Music Conference, meeting in Nashville, TN, gave Dr. York the W. Hines Sims Award, its most prestigious recognition.

Dr. York and his wife, Janna, have two adult children and two grandchildren, all of whom currently live in Waco.

The Stagg-Tolbert Forum for Biblical Studies is an annual event designed to make excellence in biblical scholarship accessible to the lay person. Named in honor of two renowned Louisiana Baptist biblical scholars, the late Dr. Frank Stagg and Dr. Malcolm Tolbert, the Forum is held in Autumn. Dr. Tolbert was the featured speaker at the inaugural meeting in 2004.