January 25-27, 2024 in Brandon Mississippi
The 2024 Deep South Founders Conference focused our attention on The Law of God, Chapter 19 of The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.
Speakers:
James Renihan
James Renihan serves as President and Professor of Historical Theology at International Reformed Baptist Seminary (IRBS). He has served as a pastor of churches in Massachusetts, New York and California. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (PhD), Seminary of the East (MDiv), Trinity Ministerial Academy, and Liberty Baptist College (BS). His academic work has focused on the Second London Baptist Confession and the broader Puritan theological context from which it arose.
Richard C. Barcellos
Richard C. Barcellos, PhD, is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA, and Associate Professor of Exegetical Theology at IRBS. He is author of Trinity & Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account and Getting the Garden Right: Adam’s Work and God’s Rest in Light of Christ. He is also the Managing Editor and Book Review Editor for Journal of IRBS.
Kurt M. Smith
Kurt M. Smith is the pastor-teacher of Providence Reformed Baptist Church. He is the author of Thundering the Word: The Awakening Ministry of George Whitefield, The Gospel Heritage of Georgia Baptists 1772-1830, and other works.
He and his wife, Lorrie, reside in St. Clair County, GA, with their three children.
Rusty Grant
Pastor Rusty Grant began his ministry in 1998, as a layman at Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he first taught studying the Bible using the inductive study method. Since then, Rusty has been committed to the primacy of Scripture through expository preaching and teaching. He first used these methods in his formal ministry by assisting the Pastor of Adult Education at Sunnyvale First Baptist Church, Sunnyvale, Texas, as a seminary intern in 2003, and then, as the Education Pastor at Gateway Fellowship, a church plant, in Royse City, Texas in 2005. In 2007, Rusty returned to West Monroe as the Pastor of Grace Covenant Baptist Church where he serves today. Rusty is married to Nancy, and they have a son, Asher.