About David Sills

M. David Sills, D.Miss., Ph.D.
President & Founder, RTIM

Associate Dean, International Missions, SBTS

A. P. and Faye Stone Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology
Director of the Doctor of Missiology Program

Director of the International Church Planting Program

Director of Great Commission Ministries

Education:
B.A., Belhaven College
M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
D.Miss., Reformed Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Reformed Theological Seminary 

Dr. David Sills is the founder and president of Reaching and Teaching International Ministries as well as a missions professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. David joined the faculty of SBTS after serving as a missionary in Ecuador. While with the International Mission Board, he served as a 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 throughout Latin America and as far away as Nepal, David has started and pastored churches in both the United States and Ecuador.

David has written several books and articles. His English language books include The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God's Plan for the World and Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience. The Missionary Call has been translated into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, and he has also written two books in Spanish, Capacitación Cultural en la Cultura Quichua and Quichuas de la Sierra: Descubriendo un Modelo de Adiestramiento Pastoral Cultralmente Apropriado.

David and his wife, Mary have been married for over thirty years and have two married children and two grandchildren. David and Mary's children are all graduates of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Ministry Connections

  • The Center for Pioneer Church Planting is a missionary training program that combines intensive in-class preparation and study in South Texas with 'hands-on' training in church planting locations in Papua New Guinea and Mexico.

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  • IMB is the largest missions agency in the world and serves as the missions agency for The Southern Baptist Convention. Engaging people groups around the world, they seek to reach the unreached around the world.
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  • Global Outreach International is a missions sending agency that seeks to connect missionaries and ministries, with over 200 missionaries, serving in ministries in more than 40 countries.
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  • Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is a ministry of the US Center for World Missions. It provides a church based missions education program. Run by volunteers who are alumni, since its beginning in 1974, tens of thousands of individuals who have become involved in global missions through the ministry of Perspectives.
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Speaking Engagements

Dr. David Sills speaks at churches, conferences, and other events many times a year. In addition to traditional preaching opportunities and missions conferences, Dr. Sills also speaks at training events around the world. The following list is a sample of some of the events at which Dr. Sills has spoken. Should you have questions about a particular message or powerpoints for a listed event, please check the resources page for free downloads. Additionally, a more comprehensive list of the international trips Dr. Sills has been a part of can be found here.