Bob Owen CrossmanBob Crossman has over forty years of experience in the ministry, serving as pastor or staff member in churches ranging in size from 13 to 3,000, and as an Annual Conference and General Agency staff member. From 2012 to 2018, Bob was deployed to the Suth Central Jurisdiction as a New Church Strategist for Path 1 at Discipleship Ministries. As pastor of a new church in Conway, Arkansas, the church grew from the initial group of 48 growing to over 500 in worship and 1,000 in the church family, witnessing 200 baptisms, receiving 270 professions and reaffirmations of faith, and membership transfers from 23 different denominations. Bob is a recipient of the Denman Evangelism Award and has received Doctor of Ministry, and Masters of Theology degrees from Perkins School of Theology, SMU in evangelism and Methodist History. He also received a Bachelors degree from Hendrix College. He has been a certified Minister of Evangelism since 1984. Bob and Marcia have been married for 47 years and make their home in Conway, Arkansas near their two sons and five grandchildren. His wife Marcia, an Elder in the Arkansas Conference, recently retired after 16 years as Archivist in the United Methodist Collection at Hendrix College's Bailey Library in Conway, Arkansas. Read More Read Less