Sunday, February 21, 2021
We are excited about our upcoming Missions Conference here at FBC Glen Este!
Please plan on joining us as we seek to shine as lights in the world (Philippians 2:15).
Missions Conference Schedule:
9:00 AM Everyone (4th grade and up) in the auditorium: Meet the Missionaries
10:30 AM Worship Service + featured guest speaker guest speaker Dr. Emir Caner
6:00 PM Special time with the Missionaries + featured guest speaker Dr. Emir Caner
Dr. Emir Caner, Guest Speaker
FBC Glen Este is honored to have Dr. Emir Caner as guest speaker for the conference. Dr. Emir Caner is President of Truett McConnell University. Since 2008, the University, built upon an Anabaptist vision of fulfilling the Great Commission through the Great Commandment, has septupled in enrollment, establishing nine schools, four master’s degrees, and thirteen online degree programs. He is the host of the syndicated program, “The Emir Caner Show,” and has published or contributed to 24 books which have sold more than 300,000 copies. His bestseller, Unveiling Islam, won the Gold Medallion Book of the Year award. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Caner has preached in nearly 1,000 churches. His wife, Hana, was raised under the oppression of Communism, and speaks on the ills of socialism and communism.
Emir Caner enrolled in The Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies. He followed in 1995 with a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in History in 1999 from the University of Texas at Arlington. The title of his doctoral dissertation is Truth Is Unkillable: The Life and Writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, Theologian to the Anabaptists.
Dr. Caner served as pastor and in staff positions in churches in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Texas for a decade before entering higher education . From 1999 to 2004 he was Assistant Professor of Church History and Anabaptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and during the 2004-2005 academic year, he served as the seminary's Associate Dean of Southeastern College at Wake Forest as well.
In 2005 he became the founding Dean of The College at Southwestern, Director of the Center for Free Church Studies and Professor of History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and remained there until he accepted the call of Truett McConnell University to become its eighth president in August 2008.
A prolific writer, Dr. Caner has written or contributed to 21 books about various topics, including Islam, persecution, religious liberty, ecclesiology, Baptist history, and apologetics. Unveiling Islam, which received the Gold Medallion Book of the Year award, has sold nearly 200,000 copies, while More Than a Prophet was a finalist for Book of the Year in Evangelism for Outreach magazine.
He is in demand nationally and internationally as a speaker and as a participant in television and radio programs. On a mission trip to the Czech Republic in 2000, he met Hana Titerova, daughter of the General Secretary of the Czech Baptist Union in Prague. They were married later that year; they are the parents of three children.