Phillip Scott Whitson
4813 Ocean Dr., Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Experienced pastoral leader with focus on spiritual growth and missional engagement. Skilled in sermon delivery, counseling, and spiritual leadership. Effective communicator with strengths in planning, organizing, negotiating, leading, reaching consensus, establishing goals, and attaining results. Strong emphasis on spiritual formation, coaching, and team collaboration. Known for vision casting, mobilizing teams, adaptability, empathy, and collaboration. Extensive background in discovering, initiating, and implementing enduring mission opportunities for individuals, churches and organizations. Proven cross-cultural abilities based upon intercultural skills, global travel, and life experiences.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Director
Southwest Metroplex Baptist Association
01.2010 - Current
- Provided encouragement and direction to leaders and churches through preaching, teaching, counseling, vision casting, and conflict mediation.
- Fostered a culture of collaboration, partnership, and unity to focus on Kingdom priorities.
- Worked closely with church leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy, fiscal integrity, and organizational goals.
- Initiated strategies for for personal, congregational, and missional growth.
Pastor
Cross Timber Baptist Church
01.1998 - 01.2010
- Provided spiritual leadership and care through preaching, visitation, counseling, and prayer.
- Guided newly formed church into numerical growth, building projects, and community involvement.
- Led church to passionately pursue global missions.
Pastor
Sand Flat Baptist Church
01.1991 - 01.1998
Pastor
Hastings Baptist Church
01.1988 - 01.1991
Education
Ph.D. - Missional Leadership
B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary
Arlington, Texas05-2019
M.A. - Religious Education
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth, TX01.1994
M.A. - Marriage and Family Counseling
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth, TX01.1994
M.Div. - undefined
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth, TX01.1989
B.A. - Foreign Service
Baylor University
Waco, TX01.1986
Skills
- Strategic visioning
- Kingdom-oriented
- Collaborative mindset
- Crisis management
- Effective communication
- Relationship building
- Pastoral counseling
- Biblically oriented
Certification
- Critical Incident Stress Management: Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Ellicott City, MD,2006
- Certified Police Chaplain, International Conference of Police Chaplains, Destin, FL,2005
- Certified Victim Chaplain, Victim Chaplain Training Academy International, Dallas, TX,2002
Community Service
- Cleburne Ministerial Cooperative, 1993 to Current
- Burleson Christian Ministerial Alliance, 1998 to Current
- Police Chaplain, Burleson Police Department, Burleson, TX, 2004-2012
- Victim Relief Chaplain, Serving Burleson and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, TX, 2002-2012
- Hospital Chaplain, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, Cleburne, TX, 1993-1998
Affiliations
- The Evangelical Theological Society
- American Society of Missiology
Publications
- Annual Pastoral Leadership Conferences, Tanzania,2008 to Present
- Biannual re:FOCUS Leadership Development Retreats for Church Leaders, Canada,2017 to Present
- Leadership Retreat, Jordan, March2022.
- Leadership Retreat for East Africa International Mission Board Personnel, Kenya,2013
- Annual Meeting for International Mission Board Sub-Sahel Personnel, Kenya,2012
- Third-Culture Kid Conference, Chile,2007
- Pastoral Leadership Based on Letters to Timothy. Mwanza, Tanzania: Inland Press,2009.
ACADEMIC / TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Adjunct Instructor, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, Irving, Texas,2019 to Present
- Adjunct Instructor, Baptist Center for Global Concerns, Arlington, Texas,2019
Languages
Swahili
Professional Working
Timeline
Executive Director
Southwest Metroplex Baptist Association
01.2010 - Current
Pastor
Cross Timber Baptist Church
01.1998 - 01.2010
Pastor
Sand Flat Baptist Church
01.1991 - 01.1998
Pastor
Hastings Baptist Church
01.1988 - 01.1991
M.A. - Religious Education
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.A. - Marriage and Family Counseling
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div. - undefined
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. - Foreign Service
Baylor University
- Critical Incident Stress Management: Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Ellicott City, MD,2006
- Certified Police Chaplain, International Conference of Police Chaplains, Destin, FL,2005
- Certified Victim Chaplain, Victim Chaplain Training Academy International, Dallas, TX,2002
Ph.D. - Missional Leadership
B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary
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