Faculty

TBS Faculty & Staff

Our staff and faculty come from a diversity of backgrounds and consider serving Christ a rich privilege and serious responsibility. By God’s grace they seek to blend serious doctrinal study with real-life application. Selected because of their theological commitment blended with years of service, our professors and lecturers provide rich instruction seeking to equip students with a solid foundation for a life-time of ministry.

Opportunities for student/faculty interaction and fellowship are found in chapels, special lectures, and conferences. Most importantly, our smaller class sizes and regular extra-class room interaction permit deep relationships to be built. We are grateful to God for the team He has assembled to serve “according to Christ.”

DR. GLENDON G. THOMPSON

PRESIDENT & PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

Dip. Ed., Church Teachers College, Mandeville, Jamaica
M.Div., Toronto Baptist Seminary
Ph.D., University of Potchefstroom, South Africa
Postdoctoral studies, University of Oxford, U.K.
Senior Pastor, Emmanuel Baptist Church, San Antonio, 1997 – 1999
Senior Pastor, Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 2000 – Present
President, Toronto Baptist Seminary & Bible College, 2000 – Present

REV. KIRK WELLUM

T. T. Shields Chair of Systematic Theology

B.Th., Tyndale University College and Seminary, 1980
B.A., University of Waterloo, 1982
M.Div., Toronto Baptist Seminary, 2006
Ph.D. studies
Pastor, Forest Baptist Church, Forest, Ont., 1982 – 1984
Pastor, Sovereign Grace Community Church, Sarnia, Ont., 1984 – 2003
Pastor, Pilgrim Baptist Fellowship, Ancaster, Ont., 2003 – 2006
Principal, Toronto Baptist Seminary, January 2008 – Present

Faculty

DR. JOEL BARKER

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW GRAMMAR; HEBREW SYNTAX AND READING;
GREEK GRAMMAR I

Email: joelbarker@hotmail.com

Ph.D., McMaster Divinity College
M.A., McMaster Divinity College
B.A., Huron University College
Professor of Hebrew and Greek Grammar, Toronto Baptist Seminary

DR. ROGER BERGS

WORSHIP

Email: roger.bergs@tbs.edu

B. Mus. – Wilfrid Laurier University
M.M. – The Juilliard School
Mus. Doc. – University of Toronto
Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists
ARCT in piano performance – Royal Conservatory of Music
Adjunct professor – Toronto Baptist Seminary 2019 – Present
Sessional Lecturer II in Music – Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 2001 – Present
Instructor in Music, Redeemer University College, 2012 –
Lecturer in Worship and Music, Tyndale University College, 2004 – 2012
Music Director – Central Presbyterian Church (Hamilton), 2018 – 2022
Music Director – Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto), 1995 – 2018
Music Director for Conferences of Ligonier Canada and Sola Scriptura Ministries International, 1999 – Present

DR. PIERRE CONSTANT

H. C. Slade Chair of New Testament Studies

Email: pierre.constant@tbs.edu

B.A. Philosophy, University of Ottawa
M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois
Ph.D., Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois
Pastoral ministry, 1982 – 1997
Séminaire Baptiste Évangélique du Québec, 1989 – Present
École de Théologie Évangélique de Montréal, 1999 – 2002
Toronto Baptist Seminary, 2004 – Present

DR. TONY COSTA

PROFESSOR OF ISLAM, APOLOGETICS

Email: tmcos@rogers.com

B.A., Specialist Program in Religious Studies, University of Toronto, 1999
M.A., Biblical Studies, University of Toronto, 2003
Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2012
Professor, Toronto Baptist Seminary, 2006 – Present
Adjunct Professor, Emmanuel Bible College, Kitchener, 2011
Seasonal Teaching Assistant, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 1994 – 1995
Pastor & Pulpit Ministry, 1995 – Present
Teaching Pastor, Milliken Chinese Community Church, 2001 – 2005

DR. CHRISTOPHER W. CROCKER

CHURCH HISTORY

Email: christopher.crocker@tbs.edu

B.A., King’s University College, UWO, London, ON, 2007
M.Div., McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, 2010
M.A., McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, 2013
Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK, 2018
Occasional Lecturer, Trinity College, Bristol, UK, 2018 – 2019
Adjunct Professor, Toronto Baptist Seminary, 2019 – Present
Two ministries in rural ON concurrent with service as a Reserve Force Army chaplain, 2008 – 2014
Pastor, Cromhall Chapel, Gloucestershire, UK, 2014 – 2019
Pastor, Markdale Baptist Church, ON, 2019 – Present

DR. STEPHEN DEMPSTER

PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

Email: Stephen.Dempster@crandallu.ca

B.A. (Hon), University of Western Ontario, 1975
M.A.R., Westminster Theological Seminary, 1977
Th.M.,Westminster Theological Seminary, 1978
M.A., University of Toronto, 1980
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1985
Lecturer in Religious Studies, Crandall University, 1984
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University, 1985 – 1989
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University, 1989 – 2000
Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University, 2000 – 2017

DR. PETER J. GENTRY

PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

Email: pgentry@sbts.edu

B.A., University of Toronto (1975)
Graduate Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary (1975 – 1977)
M.A., University of Toronto (1979)
Ph.D., University of Toronto (1994)
Pastor, Emmanuel Gospel Chapel
Professor of O.T. & Biblical Languages, Toronto Baptist Seminary (1994 – 1999)
Associate Professor of Old Testament, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1999 – 2004)
Professor of Old Testament, SBTS (2004 – Present)
Donald L.Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, SBTS – Present

DR. MICHAEL A.G. HAYKIN

PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY, SPIRITUALITY, AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Email: mhaykin@sbts.edu

B.A., Victoria College, University of Toronto
M.Rel., Th.D., Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
Séminaire Baptiste Évangélique du Québec, 1985 – Present
Central Baptist Seminary, 1982 – 1993
Heritage Baptist College/Heritage Theological Seminary, 1993 – 2003
Professor of Church History & Biblical Spirituality, SBTS, 2007 – Present
Full-time T.B.S. Principal, 2003 – 2007
Adjunct Professor, 2007 – Present

PASTOR OSMOND JEROME

LECTURER IN BIBLE STUDY SKILLS, PRINCIPLES & METHODS OF TEACHING, PUBLIC SPEAKING & WORSHIP

Email: osmond.jerome@tbs.edu

B.A., Université des Antilles-Guyane, Martinique, 2001
M.A., Université des Antilles-Guyane, Martinique, 2003
M.Div., Toronto Baptist Seminary, 2008
Lecturer in Bible Study Skills, Principles & Methods of Teaching, Public Speaking & Worship, Toronto Baptist Seminary
Pastor of Christie Street Baptist Church

REV. CARL MULLER

LECTURER IN HOMILETICS

Email: carlmuller@cogeco.ca

B.Th., Ontario Bible College (now Tyndale University)
Pastored churches in Cambridge & Kingston, Ontario
Senior Pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Burlington, 1998 – Present
Homiletics Lecturer – Present

DR. PETER PIKKERT

MISSIONS

Email: peter.pikkert@tbs.edu

B.Th., Prairie Bible College, Alberta
Master of Social Science, Syracuse University, New York
D.Th., University of South Africa
Graduate of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics
Leicester University’s Advanced Diploma in TESOL
Adjunct faculty member at Toronto Baptist Seminary

DR. STEPHEN WELLUM

PROFESSOR OF APOLOGETICS, ETHICS

Email: swellum@sbts.edu

M.Div., 1988
Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 1996
Pastor, Rose Hill Evangelical Free Church, Langford, SD, 1992 – 1996
Asst. Professor of Theology, Northwest Baptist Theological College and Sem and ACTS of Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, 1996 – 1999
Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, 1999 – Present
Editor, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 2003 – Present