The Annual Preaching Workshop
2008 Speaker: Dr. Calvin Miller w/Dr. Eugene Enlow
The Marshall Center for Christian Ministry's impact upon pastors has also been felt through its preaching workshop. Offered at minimal cost to participants, and limited to 45 pastors in order to provide a higher quality of instruction and close interaction with leaders, the Marshall Center's preaching workshop has evolved into a highly anticipated, pre-registration-required event.
The first preaching workshop was launched in 1997. In the fall of 2003,
the workshop reached a milestone when the vision of Bill and Alice Marshall
and the legacy of Eugene Enlow and his late wife, Culley, merged to create
the Eugene and Culley Enlow Endowment for Excellence in Preaching. Its
purpose is to support the preaching workshop on an annual basis. It was
established with the assistance of Kentucky Baptist Foundation President
Barry Allen and Trust Counsel Laurie Valentine. Contributions to the
endowment go directly to funding this event.
The MCCM 2009 Preaching Workshop
Register Online
Monday, September 28, 2009
Broadway Baptist Church, Louisville, KY
Workshop Leader: Dr. Charles (Chuck) Bugg
Sponsored by the Eugene and Culley Enlow Excellence in Preaching Endowment
Dr. Charles Bugg
B.A. Stetson University; M. Div., Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. Additional study: Princeton Theological Seminary; Candler
School of Theology, Emory University; College of Preachers, Washington,
D.C.; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Dr. Bugg currently serves as Professor of Church Ministry and Leadership at
the M. Christopher White School of Divinity at Gardner-Webb University in
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He has served as Dean of the Divinity
School at Gardner-Webb University, as well as the Kenneth Chafin Professor
of Preaching at Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He
also held the Carl Bates Chair of Preaching at Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Among churches which Dr. Bugg has pastored include First Baptist Church,
Deland, Florida, First Baptist, Augusta, Georgia and Providence Baptist,
Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition, he has served as Interim
Pastor or Preaching Minister at over twenty churches.
He is author of seven previous books plus many articles. For two
years, Dr. Bugg served as editor of the Abingdon Preaching Manual.
Dr. Bugg frequently speaks at conferences, conventions, and churches.
Among areas in which he leads conferences include preaching, worship, and
leadership.
His hobbies include exercise, reading, and spending time with his family.
Bugg is actively involved as a board member of the Boiling Springs Y.M.C.A.
and was a member of the Shelby, North Carolina Rotary Club.
Dr. Bugg and wife, Diane, and son, David, reside in Boiling Springs.
Their daughter, Laura Beth, who received her Doctorate in Theology at the
Harvard Divinity School, lives with her husband, Brian and son, Finn, in
Sydney, Australia. Brian is an astrophysicist at Sydney University,
which has helped Bugg to be a better listener since he has nothing to say on
the subject of astrophysics.
Previous Workshop Leaders
- 1998 — Dr. Thomas G. Long
- 1999 — Dr. John Killinger
- 2001 — Dr. John Claypool
- 2003 — Dr. Joel Gregory
- 2004 — Dr. Cleophus LaRue
- 2006 — Dr. Ron Higdon
- 2007 — Dr. Robert Smith
- 2008 — Dr. Calvin Miller
- 2009 — Dr. Charles Bugg