Personal and church evangelism, evangelistic preaching, revival and spiritual awakening, pastoral ministry, and leadership are the disciplines of focus for the research, writing, and teaching of Dr. Preston Nix. Dr. Nix has fifty years of ministry experience. He served for thirty years in local church ministry prior to coming on faculty, ten years as a youth and college minister and twenty as a Senior Pastor in only two churches in TX and OK. In his twenty years at the seminary, he has served as Interim Pastor sixteen times in churches in GA, MS, LA, and AL. Dr. Nix has been a popular conference speaker and revival preacher across the SBC.
Dr. Nix models what he teaches. As a result, he regularly takes students out to do door-to-door evangelism and street witnessing in different communities throughout the city of New Orleans. He and his wife, Diane, have two daughters, Rebekah who is married to Will and living in Greer, SC and Rachel who is living in San Diego, CA. Diane ministers to women across North America, particularly pastors’ wives, through the ministry she founded, ContagiousJoy4Him, and is an adjunct professor of women's studies at Anderson University in Anderson, SC.
