President's Welcome
Message
 It
is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the
Southwestern Christian College website.
Southwestern Christian College is committed to
excellence in education -- Christian education. Its
primary role in the field of higher education is to
offer a quality academic program in the context of
commitment to moral and spiritual values.
To this end, its curriculum is geared to the
development of the "whole man" of each of its students.
And it is the feeling of the board of trustees,
administration, and faculty of Southwestern that such a
curriculum will give the student the necessary
foundation on which to build for further study in senior
colleges and universities, and for making a lasting
contribution to the society in which he lives.
Dr. Jack Evans, President
President's Bio
Dr. Jack Evans Sr. is a native
of Houston, Texas. He was baptized into Christ in
1953 at the age of 15 by the late Paul Settles. He
began preaching at the age of 16. After attending
the public schools of Houston for 9 years, he
transferred to the Nashville Christian Institute in
Nashville, Tennessee, of which the eminent Marshall
Keeble was President at this time. He graduated
from his high school in 1957. He then enrolled in
Southwestern Christian College (SWCC), a junior
college, of Terrell, Texas, from which he graduated
in 1959. He served as the associate Minister of the
College Church of Christ while attending
Southwestern.
After graduating from SWCC, Jack Evans Sr.
enrolled in Eastern New Mexico University in
Portales, New Mexico--majoring in History and
Religion; he graduated from this university in
1961. He preached for a small congregation in Hale
Center, Texas, while attending college in New
Mexico. Upon graduation Dr. Evans began graduate
work, in 1961, in History and English at the
University of Texas (Texas Western College at the
time) in El Paso, Texas.
In 1963 he received his M.A. degree. His M.A.
thesis was entitled "THE HISTORY OF SOUTHWESTERN
CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF TERRELL, TEXAS." He was the
Minister of the Cebada St. Church of Christ in El
Paso while attending graduate school. He has had
conferred upon him the Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degrees
by Harding University, Pepperdine University, and
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Dr. Evans became Dean of SWCC
in 1963. He served in this capacity and as an
instructor in History for 4 years. In 1967, he was
appointed President of Southwestern Christian
College, thus becoming the first Afro-American
president of the only predominantly black Christian
College among churches of Christ. He is presently
serving in this capacity. SWCC became fully
accredited under his administration in 1973. He is
listed in the Who's Who in American College and
University Administration and Who's Who in Texas
Today. He is a member of the Board of Directors of
David Lipscomb University.
Dr. Evans has spoken on all the major
lectureships of Christian colleges and in special
seminars and meetings on other college campuses. He
conducts gospel meetings and crusades in churches of
Christ through out the nation, and has participated
in a number of religious debates.
He is the author/editor of the Evans-Barr
Debate, the Curing of Ham, the Cross or the
Crescent, Sermons that Save, Sinai or Zion?, The Two
Covenants; and co-author with Dr. James Maxell, of
Divorce and Remarriage, and with G.P. Holt, of
Sermons of the Crusades.
Jack Evans Sr. is married to Patricia Evans of
Nashville, Tennessee. They have three sons, Jack
Jr., Herbert Raye and David Paul. They have two
grandsons, Jack Evans III, and Brandon Jamal.
also visit
JackEvansOnline.com |
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