Core Seminary Faculty

Below are the core seminary instructors to which the students will be exposed throughout the three-year seminary experience. Because of the way FBS is structured, none of these individuals are full-time employees of FBS.

Old Testament Studies

Brent Aucoin, Th.M. – Assistant Pastor at Faith Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN; College & Career ministries; NANC certified; instructor and counselor at FBCM; married with two children; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University; M.S., Engineering, Purdue University; M.Div., Central Seminary; Th.M. in OT., Trinity Evangelical School; Ph.D. in progress, Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA.

New Testament Studies

Rob Green, M.Div.– Assistant Pastor at Faith Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN; Administrator for Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries; NANC certified; married with two children; B.S., Engineering Physics, Ohio State University; M.Div., Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA; Ph.D. in progress, Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA.

Biblical Counseling

Mark Dutton, D.Min.– NANC Fellow; instructor and counselor at FBCM; conference speaker; married with three children; B.A., Bible, and M.A., Pastoral Theology, Bob Jones University; D.Min., Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA.

Bob Smith, M.D.– Retired physician; Deacon Chairman at Faith Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN; author; conference speaker; co-founder of FBCM; NANC Fellow and board member; member of the NANC Academy; instructor and counselor at FBCM; married with four children and seven grandchildren; B.A., Chemistry, North Manchester College; M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dan Wickert, M.D.– Obstetrician and Gynecologist; Deacon at Faith Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN; NANC certified; instructor and counselor at FBCM; conference speaker; married with two children; B.S., Biology, Bradley University; M.D., University of Illinois.

Church Administration, Leadership, Growth, Strategic Planning, Homiletics

 Steve Viars, D.Min.– Senior Pastor of Faith Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN; NANC Fellow and board member; instructor and counselor at FBCM; conference speaker; married with three children; B.S., Bible, Baptist Bible College, Clarks Summit, PA; M.Div., Grace Theological Seminary; D.Min., Biblical Counseling, Westminster Theological Seminary.

Adjunct Seminary Faculty

Old Testament Studies

Stuart Robertson, Ph.D. – Pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette, IN; continuing lecturere at Purdue University; married with two children and two grandchildren; Ph.D., Annenberg Research Institute, Formerly Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning, now the Judaic Research Institute at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; M.A., History, University Nebraska at Omaha; M.A., Philosophy of religion, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL; B.A., History and Economics, Sterling College, Kansas.

Systematic Theology

George Zemek, Ph.D.– Director of The Ministry Training Center at the Bible Church of Little Rock in Arkansas. He received his Ph.D. in theology at Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, IN. At Grace Theological Seminary, he served as a full-time professor of Biblical languages, theology and apologetics, and Director of Doctoral Studies. He also taught for six years at The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California

Biblical Counseling

Charles Hodges, M.D. – Family practice physician; Deacon at Grace Baptist Church, Lebanon, IN; NANC certified; instructor and counselor at FBCM; married with four children and two grandchildren; B.A., History, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine; M.A., Counseling, Liberty University; M.A., Religion, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.

Missions, Personal Evangelism, Apologetics

Bob Martin, M.D.– Chair of Dermatology and Chief of Dermatopathology at Arnett Clinic in Lafayette, Indiana. After receiving his M.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, he did a psychiatry internship followed by a residency in family practice and several years of solo private family practice in rural Illinois. He has been on faculty at Johns Hopkins, Case Western Reserve, Southern Illinois, and Indiana Universities as well as Purdue Pharmacy School. Bob also has a M.A. in Religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He has written on apologetics, world religions and world views. Bob is married with four children.

Don Whipple, D.Min. Candidate – Senior Pastor, Kossuth Street Baptist Church, Lafayette, IN, 1988-2004, 2006; Administrator, Evangelical Baptist Missions and Bethesda Outreach, 2005-2006; married with three children; BRE, Bible, Baptist Bible College, Clarks Summit, PA; M.Div., Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA; D.Min. Candidate, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL.