Robert Turner

Robert Turner, director of BRN Next, the collegiate ministry of the Baptist Resource Network since 1992, has served as a North American Mission Board collegiate missionary since 1998. In these roles, he has served as a NAMB Supervision Level I and II Trainer and since 2007, as an Emerging Regions Collegiate Consultant in a LifeWay contract position.

He also has served as guest lecturer for collegiate ministry on three seminary campuses (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) and a featured guest presenter at an International Mission Board gathering for European Region Collegiate missionaries. He has been past president of the State Student Directors Association (SSDA), a national association for his peers.

Robert holds a master of divinity degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and previously served three churches as minister of youth and as a director of the Baptist Student Union, Southern Arkansas University.

He is the author/compiler of “Thy Kingdom Come,” a primary strategy document that guided the BCPSJ forward into the BRN (2000) and “Points of Connection for Missional Leaders: Developing Strategies to Connect Your Church’s Mission to the Larger Mission of God” for the SBC Stewardship Development Association (2007).

Robert and his wife, Brenda, are the parents of two adult sons and became parents of their two adopted grandsons in December 2017. Robert considers his life’s calling to serve as a conduit of God’s mercy and grace to all within his influence.