Harold Ewing Burchett

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

HAROLD E. BURCHETT

Born: August 2, 1924 in Clarksville, Tennessee

Family: Wife, Cheryl; 2 sons and 2 daughters, 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren

Early Youth: News reporter for home town paper, The Chronicle, at age 16. U.S. Navy during World War II aboard a destroyer, southwest Pacific.

Education: Gordon College – A.B.

Gordon-Conwell Seminary – M.Div.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School – D.Min.

Ministry as Pastor: More than thirty years in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, U.S.A. and 7 ½ years at High Park Baptist Church, Toronto, Canada; Senior pastor of Virginia Beach Community Chapel, Virginia, for 6 years. More recently he was full time homemaker and care giver for his late wife, Jane, who had Alzheimer’s Disease.

Service as Teacher: Several years as Professor of Pastoral Studies at Columbia Biblical Seminary, Columbia, SC, and 20 years as adjunct professor there.

Authored Seven Books:

People Helping People

Spiritual Life Studies

Healing for the Church

Last Light

Bringing Christ Back

Wisdom Words

Bright Light

Overseas Ministry: With missionaries in Brazil, Argentina, India, Guatemala, Italy and Russia.

Also, for several years was regular teacher-trainer at the Missions Institute for the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada for all their new appointees and for furloughing missionaries.

Key Ministry: A concentration throughout a half-century on discipling and training individuals to, in turn, disciple others who will become disciplers.