Jerry Rankin

Jerry Rankin is President Emeritus of International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has spent the last 40 years serving as a missionary in Indonesia, Associate to the Area Director for South and Southeast Asia, Administrator for Southern Baptist work in India, Area Director for Southern Asia and Pacific, and President of the International Mission Board (1993-2010). He has authored several books including The Challenge to Great Commission Obedience, Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God’s Glory, and Spiritual Warfare and Missions: The Battle for God’s Glory Among the Nations. He has a B.A. from Mississippi College, an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from Mississippi College, and an Honorary Doctor of Missions from California Baptist University.