Director of Missions
Jim Gatliff
Jim Gatliff has served at Hunt Baptist Association since June 2008. He has earned a Ph. D. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as MDiv. and MA(RE) degrees from Southwestern Seminary where he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Theological Fellowship and a Teaching Fellow in the Evangelism Department.
He also holds Master of Administrative Studies and Bachelor of Science in Accounting degrees from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where he was among the inaugural class of Parsons Scholars, the 1981 Oklahoma Intercollegiate CEDA Debate State Champion, the 1982 Oklahoma Intercollegiate CEDA Debate State Runner-Up, the 1983 Oklahoma Intercollegiate Press Association State Champion in Investigative Reporting, the academic top graduate in his class, and served as the Student Body President, Student Senate President, President of the Presidents Club, Editor of The Southeastern campus newspaper, instructor in the Speech and Drama Department, and Assistant Debate Coach. He is a 1979 graduate of Mustang High School, Mustang, Oklahoma, where he was President of the Student Council and President of his senior class.
He previously served as Ministry Strategist for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and on the staff of Hunt and Kauf-Van Associations. He also was pastor of three churches in Texas, including the First Baptist Church of White Settlement. He has served as interim pastor or staff member at more than 25 churches.
As a ministry consultant, he has served over 300 churches and well over 800 individual pastors. He has also organized or assisted with over 80 new church starts. During his years of denominational service he has authored or compiled several ministry-oriented training manuals and hundreds of other ministry resources. His favorite forms of ministry are serving as interim pastor, coaching and encouraging pastors, and leading minister cohorts and discipleship micro-groups for laymen.
He and his wife, Lynda, have three grown children, Michael, Holly, and Katie, and seven grandchildren.
