Diploma in Spanish Language Studies, 1972, Instituto de Lengua Espanola, San Jose, Costa Rica
Ministry Experience
1991-1997 as Area Director, Spanish South America, Foreign Mission Board
1990-1991 as Executive Secretary of the Board of Missions and Evangelism, National Baptist Convention of Venezuela
1991 as Interim Pastor, Beltway Park Baptist Church, Abilene, TX
1984-1985 as Pastor, Primera Iglesia Bautista, Los Teques, Venezuela
1972-1991 as Church Planter, Maracay and Los Teques, Venezuela
1965-1971 as Pastor, Bethel Baptist Church, Eastland, Texas
1963-1965 as Pastor, Dobbs Valley Baptist Church, Mineral Wells, Texas
1961-1962 as Pastor, Bethel Baptist Church, Anson, Texas
Teaching Experience
Jan 1999-present at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Professor of Christian Ethics
1998 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Adjunct Professor of Christian Ethics
1971-1991 at Baptist Theological Seminary of Venezuela, under the appointment of the FMB
Professor
July, 1987 at Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador
Teaching tour on the Christian Family
Publications
1985. El Matrimonio Triunfante y La Familia Feliz, Textbook on Christian marriage and the family. Baptist Spanish Publishing House (BSPH) (El Paso, TX). Author.
1998. , chapter in a textbook on Southern Baptist Missiology. Broadman and Holman (Nashville, TN). Author.
Personal
Spouse: Emilee Griffith Goff
Children: Gary Edward, M.D. (Internal Medicine); Samuel Neal, International Agricultural Consultant for Food for the Hungry (faith-based agency)
Church Membership: Wedgewood Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas
Other: Contributed chapters to three Christian books in Spanish: divorce, sexual harmony in marriage, and communication in marriage (BSPH, El Paso, TX); contributed three quarters of Sunday School lessons to Expositor Bautista (BSPH, El Paso, TX)--two units for adults and one for youth
