Eric Walsh is a pastor currently working at Troy First Baptist Church in Troy, Tennessee. He received education degrees from various universities and seminaries. He has over 30 years of experience in ministry, serving as a pastor, minister of music, associate pastor, and in other roles. His background includes working with churches in Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, British Columbia. He is married with four children and several grandchildren.

1. Eric Walsh
Current Address:
216 Flowers Road
Troy, Tennessee 38260
Home: 731-536-4713
Cell: 509-723-3109
ericarol6@yahoo.com
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Birth Date: January 6, 1953
Married to: Carol Flowers, December 18, 1993
Bachelor of Science, Education, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1982
Concentrated in Children’s Ministries in work toward Master of Religious Education, Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, 1989-93
Children: Katie (husband Jared) Mawhorter, born November 21, 1982
Ben, (wife Jade) born June 15, 1987
(Their mother died May 20, 1990.)
Erica, born July 15, 1996
Bethany, born January 12, 1999
Ordained to the Gospel Ministry by the First Baptist Church of Lithia Springs, Georgia, 1978
Licensed to the Gospel Ministry by the Highland Baptist Church, Hickory, North Carolina, 1991
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Music with Honors 1975
State University of West Georgia Carrollton, Georgia
Major: Voice
Minor: Education
Master of Church Music 1977
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky
Major: Voice
Minor: Education
Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages 1994
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth, Texas
Doctor of Philosophy 2002
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth, Texas
Major: Theology
Minor: Philosophy of Religion
MINISTRY EXPERIENCE
Troy First Baptist Church, Troy, Tennessee 2014 ~ present
•member, teach preschool Sunday School, sing in Adult Choir, Journey Group member, help Pastor Vann Kissell as
needed, supply preach in the area
Greenacres Baptist Church, Spokane Valley, Washington 2009 ~ 2013
•Associate Pastor, 2009 ~ 2011, to help with the work of the ministry
•Pastor, 2011-13, to work toward transition, unity, and a governing structure for the church

2. Pastor, South Seminole Baptist Church, Seminole, Texas, 2006 ~ 2008
•Our church sponsored a city-wide revival, held at the city Civic Center, with Dr. Levi Price preaching.
•Royal Ambassadors and Girls in Action were flourishing.
•Sunday School has led out in outreach visitation.
•Our fastest growing Sunday School department was the Young Adults.
•A great staff worked together as a team to plan worship, music, and youth events.
•Elected vice-president and president of our Seminole Ministerial Alliance as well as vice-
moderator of our Permian Baptist Association.
2003 ~ 2005
•Returning from Canada, we were active members of First Baptist Church, Troy, Tennessee.
•In this time I was involved in: preaching in the pastor’s absence
•Leading discipleship and Bible studies
•Leading Prayer Meetings
•Leading music in worship as needed, and singing in the choir
•For other ministries in our areas, I served as supply preacher, revival music leader, and Bible study
leader.
Pastor, Royal Heights Baptist Church, Delta, British Columbia, Canada, 2000 ~ 2003
•As senior pastor I worked with the pastoral teams of our Spanish congregation, Vietnamese
congregation, and the Korean congregation who also met in our building. We worked together as a team.
•God was most at work among our young adults for evangelism, discipleship, and leading worship.
•I particularly enjoyed ministering to families together and the joint Christmas Service where we sang
Christmas Carols in four languages at the same time.
•Our purpose was to build our church around the Great Command (Mark 12:29-31) and the Great
Commission (Matt. 28:18-20).
Pastor, Sandy Lake Road Baptist Church, Coppell, Texas, 1998 ~ 2000
•Serving a church that had split and come back together required that we learn to walk together with
Jesus.
•This led us to three focal points in our life together. First was God: we are to love God first, above all
else. Worship became a top priority life-style.
•Second was the body of Christ: we are to love each other. Nurturing and building up the body of Christ
resulted in our participation in the life and ministry of Jesus among us. Sunday School was very important for us.
•Third was the world that does not know Jesus: we are to love those outside the body of Christ.
Witness, evangelism, and missions showed us how to walk in joyful obedience to the Savior as we
invited others to come to God. Again, the Sunday School led in outreach evangelism.
•We took care not to separate or neglect these three since Christ is the head of the body.
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Slidell, Texas, 1995 ~ 1998
•It was a delight to help a church organize for optimum ministry.
•Worship took on a new focus of importance.
•Attendance doubled from two years ago. We organized to form new Sunday School classes.
•The church became more involved in outreach and evangelism, baptizing new believers.
Minister of Music and Youth, Baker Baptist Church, Weatherford, Texas, 1994 ~ 1995
•Ministry here allowed me to continue to grow along with the church through
•Helping lead them in worship
•Planning youth and children’s discipleship ministries
•Leading Bible studies
•Preaching as needed and pastoral ministries
Member of Southcliff Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991 ~ 1994
•As a seminary student I was involved as a teacher in Adult Sunday School,
•Participated in the Wednesday night prayer ministry,
•Sang in the adult choir, and assisted as a music leader, as needed, in worship services, adult choir,
children’s choirs, and the adult handbell choir.

3. Associate Pastor, Highland Baptist Church, Hickory, North Carolina, 1990 ~ 1991
Minister of Music, Highland Baptist Church, Hickory, North Carolina, 1982 ~ 1990
•While serving here we developed a graded choir ministry for everyone from age three through senior
adults, including choirs for all ages, handbell groups for children through senior adults, instrumental
ensembles, and classes in music instruction.
•This ministry worked well together with other ministries in our church and with other churches to be
involved in music and mission trips and tours for multi-age level groups.
•We were able to see many of these come to Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
Associate Pastor/Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Morrow, Georgia, 1980 ~ May 1982
Minister of Music and Youth, First Baptist Church, Morrow, Georgia, December 1977 ~ 1980
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I received Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior as a teen and was baptized into the First Baptist Church, Douglasville,
Georgia. God called me to follow him in ministry while I was a sophomore in college. He then led me to years of fruitful
service in music ministry, while at the same time always opening doors to preach, teach, and lead. Gradually the Lord began
to redirect the focus of the ministry he had for me toward teaching and preaching. I believe that as a disciplemaker my task
is to help believers, both individually and corporately, to discover what God is doing in their midst, to find out how he wants
them to join him in his work, and then help them to make whatever adjustments are necessary, so that together we can then
walk with the Lord in obedience. This will then be a call to walk together in ministry to the Lord in worship (Isa. 6:1-13),
ministry to the body of Christ in nurture through discipleship (Eph. 4:11-16), and ministry to the unbelieving world in
witness and missions (Matt. 28:18-20). I find it a great joy to help a church walk together with Jesus.
Throughout my ministry I have been involved in teaching and building teams for ministry. Whether leading Continuing
Witness Training, MasterLife, or F.A.I.T.H. Evangelism Strategy, I have been involved in disciplemaking. More often than
not, my focus has been the Sunday School. I believe that these small groups can be the church organized for ministry, to
help lead in reaching, teaching, and enfolding families into the life of the church and equipping them for service. The
purpose of disciplemaking is to build the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) into the life of every believer. Then as we live the
Christian life in the community of faith, we can live to the praise of his glory (Eph. 1:6, 12, 14), so that everyone will see
our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven (Matt. 5:16) that the world may know that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:11). I am glad to be a part of what Jesus is doing in building up his church. My prayer is
that the Holy Spirit of God would call his church to himself in such a way that a mighty movement of God in Revival and
Spiritual Awakening would sweep our nation, so that the result would be a change in our culture.
RERFERENCES
Jack Long, Director of Missions, Beulah Baptist Association
Phone: 731.885.2152
Email: brojack@bbaol.org
Richard Kirk, Region 5, Church Health Catalyst, Northwest Baptist Convention
Phone: 425-478-0945
Email: rkirk@nwbaptist.org
Kenny Carr, Pastor, Long Heights Baptist Church, McKenzie, Tennessee
Phone: 731-697-1668
Email: kennycarr@charter.net
Barry Bishop, Pastor, Cornerstone Baptist Church, Nine Mile Falls, Washington
Phone: 509-294-9502
Email: barrybishop@gmail.com
Glenn Dobbs, friend, Spokane, Washington
Phone: 509-991-1672
Email: gdobbs@minesmanagement.com