David Sills

Member Bio

Dr. Sills is President of Reaching & Teaching International Ministries and A.P. and Faye Stone Professor of Christian Missions & Cultural Anthropology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. David joined Southern Seminary after serving as a missionary in Ecuador. While with the International Mission Board, he served as church planter and general evangelist among the Highland Quichua people in the Andes and as a seminary professor at the Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served as Rector and professor of the Baptist seminary as a missionary with Global Outreach International. In addition to leadership training and seminary ministry that has taken him around the world, David has started and pastored churches in both the United States and Ecuador. He is the author of multiple books including The Missionary Call and Reaching & Teaching. David and his wife, Mary have been married for over thirty years and have two married children and four grandchildren. David and Mary’s children are all graduates of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.