Dr. Woodrow M. Kroll has now retired from being the
president and Bible teacher for the international Back to the Bible radio and
television ministry. He is a former president of Davis College (formerly
Practical Bible College) in Johnson City, New York. In addition to preaching
and teaching, Woodrow Kroll is a prolific writer, having authored more than 50
books expounding on the Bible and Christian living.
Woodrow Kroll
was born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. His father, Reverend Frank Kroll, also attended
Practical Bible Training School (as it was then
called) from 1936 to 1939 and pastored the Park Gate Baptist Church in Ellwood
City for thirty-three years. Woodrow Kroll followed in his father's footsteps
and attended Practical Bible Training School from 1962 to 1965.
Kroll
subsequently earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from Barrington College. He
then studied at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary earning a Master of
Theology. His son Timothy has followed his father and grandfather in ministry
and is the senior pastor at Northside Baptist Church in St. Petersburg,
Florida.
Woodrow Kroll from
1975 to 1980 chaired the Division of Religion at Liberty University in
Lynchburg, Virginia. On January 17, 1981, he became president of Practical
Bible Training School.
Dr. Kroll assumed
the leadership of the Back to the Bible organization in 1990. He held this
position until 2013. Dr. John Munro, Senior Pastor at Calvary Church in
Charlotte, NC is currently the new president and speaker of Back to the Bible
ministry. Kroll served as principal speaker on the ministry's daily worldwide
broadcasts. He has traveled in ministry to over 100 countries and annually
leads tours to Israel.
Among the more
than 50 books Woodrow Kroll has written on the Bible and Christian living are:
Facing
Your Final Job Review: The Judgment Seat of Christ, Salvation, and Eternal
Rewards.
Taking
Back the Good Book: How America Forgot the Bible and Why It Matters to You. Ephesians:
Life in God's Family.
Proverbs: The Pursuit of God's Wisdom.
John:
Face-to-Face with Jesus.
Building a
Godly Home: God's Blueprint for Men. Back to the Bible. 2001. (Formerly: Is There a
Man in the House?)
Surviving
the Prodigals in your Life: Stories of Courage and Hope. Back to
the Bible. 2001.
7 Secrets to Spiritual Success.
Multnomah Publishers. 2000.
Wood and his wife Linda live in Nebraska.
Dr. ‘Jerry’ Kroll
was born on January 7, 1943 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. While in high school
he was the Director of Ellwood City ‘Youth for Christ.’ He attended Geneva
College and then went to France for two years as a missionary with the American
Youth for Christ program. He received his Master’s of Divinity from
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and his doctorate from Westminster
Theological Seminary and did further graduate work at Dallas Seminary.
He pastored in
New England for ten years before leaving to teach at Liberty University in
1978. Dr. Kroll taught pastoral studies at Liberty University and the
Theological Seminary. While teaching pastoral studies at Liberty University Dr.
Kroll pastored Heritage Baptist Church as a place to put into practice what
he was teaching.
He retired as
Senior Pastor in 2013 and serves as Emeritus Pastor with his emphasis being
world-wide missions. His passion for evangelism and discipleship has lead him
to do missions conferences and pastoral training in Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe,
Africa, Australia, North America, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
Dr. Kroll’s desire to see local
churches and missions agencies partner together in sending missionaries to the
field has led him to begin a series of Leading a World Missions Church
seminars. He regularly speaks to pastor’s conferences on missions strategy, and
local church missions conferences.
Dr. Jerry Kroll graduated summa cum laude
from Barrington College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Gordon Divinity School
with a Master of Divinity Degree, and Westminster Theological Seminary, where
he received the degree of Doctor of Ministry.Dr. Kroll has also done graduate work at Dallas Theological Seminary,
Princeton Theological Seminary, the University of Virginia, the Sorbonne - the
University of Paris, France, and the Jerusalem University, Israel.
He served as the senior pastor of
North Baptist Church, Brockton, Massachusetts for 10 years. In 1975, Christian
Life magazine awarded the church the distinction of “the fastest growing Sunday
school in Massachusetts."
Dr. Kroll was the associate professor
of pastoral ministries for 15 years at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist
Theological Seminary (LBTS).
He has served on the executive board
of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism since February 2000.
He and his wife, Linda live in
Lynchburg, Virginia.