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 Dr. Jack Schaap |
Pillsbury Baptist Bible College; Hyles-Anderson College, B.S., M.Ed., D.D.; Pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana; Twenty-three years of teaching experience; Youth director for two years; Bus captain for eleven years; Sunday school teacher for twenty-two years.
Pastor Jack Schaap was born into a middle-class working family in Michigan. He grew in a very secure home where he learned strong family values. He was led to Christ at the age of five by his sister Kristi as he sat on the edge of the bathtub.
Through his junior high and high school years, He worked side by side with his dad in the field of construction. He learned the value of hard work, and his dad became his hero and best friend. His parents hosted many visiting preachers, and several of them challenged him to pray about going into full-time Christian service. Through a burden to reach several of his lost school friends, Brother Schaap surrendered to God’s call. He attended a Bible college for one and a half years. During that time a Hyles-Anderson College graduate became Brother Schaap’s home pastor and pointed him to Hyles-Anderson College where he enrolled in January 1977. Through some miraculous experiences, he met and started dating Cindy Hyles about six weeks later. Brother Schaap graduated from college in May of 1978 with his bachelor’s degree. He received his master’s degree in May of 1979. On June 1, 1979, Jack Schaap and Cindy Hyles were married. Brother Schaap began teaching Bible and English at Hyles-Anderson College that fall. He later became an assistant to the president. Then in the spring of 1996, he became vice president at Hyles-Anderson.
Brother Schaap has traveled extensively across America and has become one of America’s foremost preachers. While employed at the college, he was a bus captain for 11 years, starting with one bus route with six riders. This ministry grew to six bus routes with a high day of 300 riders. He was the teacher of the college and career class at First Baptist Church at that time also.
On March 7, 2001, Dr. Jack Schaap became pastor of the great First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. He is perpetuating the ministry of Dr. Jack Hyles for the next generation. The ministries of the First Baptist Church are expanding and growing. Bro. Schaap has led in the completion of a new 7,500 seat auditorium, the remodeling of many of the buildings in the downtown complex, the starting of new ministries, and the launching of more than 37 new adult Sunday school classes. The college has added a gorgeous new front entrance and reception area; a new science lab has been built; the computer lab has been greatly expanded; several hallways, classrooms, and dormitory areas have been remodeled. The academic department has grown with the addition of Dr. Tom Vogel, one of the outstanding educators in America. The other ministries, such as Hammond Baptist Schools, Chicago Baptist Academy, and City Baptist Schools, are building and growing as well.
If Pastor Schaap’s life had to be summed up in just one statement, it would be: Dr. Jack Schaap is a man who has a passion for God.
 Dr. Wendell Evans |
Northwestern College; Bob Jones University, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; University of Tennessee; University of Chattanooga; Hyles-Anderson College, D.D.; Baptist College of America, L.H.D.; Pastored in North Carolina; Member of the Conference on Faith and History; Member of the Southern Historical Association; Chairman, Department of Religious Education, Temple Baptist Theological Seminary, 1961-1972; Dean, Tennessee Temple College, 1967-1972; Conference speaker; Bus captain for two years; Sunday school teacher for three years; Sunday school superintendent for six years; Author of Some Thoughts on American History.
Dr. Wendell Evans, a native of Iowa, pastored for two years in North Carolina. While a student at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, he traveled with an evangelistic team for four summers. This ministry took him into most of the states and throughout Central America.
For eleven years, Dr. Evans was associated with Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He served as Chairman of the Department of Religious Education of Temple Baptist Theological Seminary during these years. From 1967 to 1972, he was Academic Dean of Tennessee Temple. While at Tennessee Temple, he was Assistant Training Union Director of the Highland Park Baptist Church for ten years. He was a bus pastor for two years. He helped in the establishment of three routes.
Dr. Wendell Evans has been an administrator of Hyles-Anderson College since its founding in 1972 and was the president of the college for most of its history.
Dr. Evans has had the unique opportunity of being influenced by three of the great Christian leaders of recent times: by Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. for seven years, by Dr. Lee Roberson for eleven years, and by Dr. Jack Hyles for twenty-eight years.
Dr. Evans has many facets. He grew up on a farm in Iowa, and he still enjoys wearing his bibbed overalls. When preaching in a farming community, he can be found driving a tractor or harvesting grain with a combine. He loves preaching and soul winning–traveling many weekends across America preaching in churches. He loves academics–spending much time reading and studying history and education. He loves teaching and sharing truth: if a person wants to learn, Dr. Evans is ready to communicate to a group or one-on-one. Dr. Evans loves prayer and reading the Bible–these are serious business to him. Dr. Evans is a well-rounded Christian gentleman.
Many people describe him in the following manner: “Dr. Evans is ‘Mr. Hyles-Anderson College.’”
Dr. Ray Young
Baptist Christian College, Hyles-Anderson College, B.S., D.D.; Youth director for three years; Assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church of Hammond for thirty-two years; Bus director for twenty-six years; Twenty-six years of teaching experience; College administrator for seventeen years; Author of four books.
Dr. Ray Young was trained by his parents to be an honest and hard-working young man. Being in rural Louisiana, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and the outdoor life. In 1970, as a fifteen-year-old boy, Brother Young rode a bus to church, was saved, baptized, called to preach, and preached his first sermon. As a young man he listened to men like Dr. Jack Hyles, Dr. Wally Beebe, and Dr. Jim Vineyard. In 1974 he came to Hyles-Anderson College and worked his way through college. Dr. Hyles described meeting Brother Young during his first year in college as, “a very mild-mannered, meek, and almost timid college student.” In 1977 he was asked to join the staff of the First Baptist Church of Hammond and had the opportunity to learn firsthand from Dr. Hyles about the ministry. Dr. Young has stated that he teaches what great men have taught him.
As president, he oversees the daily operation of the college, yet he often is seen shaking hands with the students, passing out treats in the hallway, going on activities with the students, and more. Dr. Young has traveled hundreds of miles to visit students who were hospitalized.
Dr. Young is known for getting to work very early in the morning, working long hours, and getting the work of the ministry done, yet he is also known as a family man and a man who enjoys taking students on trips.
Dr. Jack Hyles stated that: “As a worker, he is tireless; as a bus leader, he is compassionate; as an assistant, he is loyal; and as a friend, he is incomparable. He is a preacher, teacher, worker, friend; he is loyal, faithful, diligent, dedicated, and caring.”
Executive Vice President
Teaches Science, Education, Bible, and Church Education
Dr. Tom Vogel
University of Minnesota, Hyles-Anderson College, B.S., M.Ed.; Bus worker for twenty-five years; Science teacher for twenty-three years at Hammond Baptist Junior High School; Five years of experience as assistant principal and sixteen years of experience as principal of Hammond Baptist Junior High School; Adult men’s Sunday school teacher for eight years.
Dr. Tom Vogel is a Vietnam veteran and has over 30 years of teaching experience in Christian schools. He has a burden for training and teaching preachers and teachers. He leads the faculty in finding practical ways to get the truth of God’s Word to the students. He works at improving the classroom environment to get the truth to the students. As a junior high school principal, he met weekly with Dr. Hyles. He has worked many hours with Brother Schaap, at first with the National Christian Educators’ Convention and then as a college administrator. Dr. Vogel uses his military and educational background to reach the students with a well organized, well planned curriculum. Dr. Vogel has been called “Mr. Christian Education.”
Dr. Bob Hooker
Memphis State University, B.A.; Hyles-Anderson College, B.S., D.D: Hyles-Anderson seminary, M.P. Th.; Sixteen years of teaching experience; youth director for three and on-half years; Member of Fishermen’s Club for three and one-half years, Sunday school teacher for ten years; Director and worker in Servicemen’s ministry for twenty years.
On November 8, 1975, Robert Hooker was saved in his dorm room while attending Memphis State University. He graduated from Memphis State and went on to work as the youth pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Collierville, Tennessee. While attending this church, God called Robert to preach, and he, his wife, and two daughters moved to Indiana to attend Hyles-Anderson College. Robert graduated from Hyles-Anderson College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pastoral Theology. Later, Robert received his Masters in Pastoral Theology. Bro. Hooker has been working at Hyles-Anderson College and in ministries of First Baptist Church since 1985. In 2005, Bro. Hooker was given a Doctorate of Divinity by Dr. Jack Schaap.
Dr. Hooker teaches Bible, preaching, and counseling at Hyles-Anderson College. He also teaches the Faith and Family Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana.
Administrative Vice President
Teaches Senior Seminar and Church Education
Dr. Darrell Moore
University of Maine; Hyles-Anderson College, B.S., M.Ed., D.D.; Twenty-three years of teaching experience; Bus captain for eighteen years; Bus division leader for twenty-two years; Assistant to the B, C, and D bus director for twenty years; Director of the Inner City Chapel Ministry for five years; Assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church of Hammond.
Dr. Moore is a man with a heart for people. He has a heart for students and for their training. He leads in organizing the opportunity for seniors studying to be pastors and assistant pastors to work firsthand with the pastoral staff at First Baptist Church in hospital visitation; the jail ministry; the development and printing of church materials; buying, remodeling, and starting chapels; and a wide variety of other experiences.
Dr. Moore has a heart for foreign missions. He serves as the missions pastor at First Baptist Church. He has visited mission fields and had close contact with many missionaries over the years.
Dr. Moore has a heart for the lost. He worked for many years in the bus ministry, winning the lost and bringing them to church. He has led the chapel ministry in starting chapels in various neighborhoods in Chicago and reaching families in those areas for Christ.
Chief Financial Officer
Teaches Youth Ministry
Dr. Rick Sparks
Ball State University, B.S.; Hyles-Anderson Seminary, M.P.Th., D.D.; Fifteen years of teaching experience; Bus captain and worker for twenty years; Sunday school teacher for sixteen years.
Brother Sparks was led to Christ and started attending church as a teenager. He attended and graduated from Ball State University with a degree in accounting in 1982. He was successful in the business field with a nice home and a good family and was a faithful church member. In 1986 he made a decision that he did not simply want to make money and have a nice life; he wanted to serve God full-time and do something that would be eternal. He moved his family to Northwest Indiana and enrolled in Hyles-Anderson Seminary. He graduated in August 1990 with a Master of Pastoral Theology degree. He has worked with teenagers in the Bible Club ministry for seventeen years. He can be seen every Sunday afternoon driving a busload of teenagers from the Hammond area to the Sunday evening church service. His life verse is: Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
