Alumni Spotlight

The Alumni Office is honored to recognize this year’s DTS Alumni Distinguished Service Award winner, Joe Arthur (PhD, 2005). Joe and his wife, Meta, have spent a lifetime cultivating their love for the Lord, caring for their family, and building up the global church. A church planter and seminary professor in Brazil, Joe has mentored many. One of his greatest joys has been the privilege of being present for those […]

Rick Nohr (ThM, 2001; DMin, 2020) serves as the Senior Pastor of Pine Ridge Bible Church located in Quincy, Michigan. The village boasts one stoplight, a seasonal Dairy Queen, and a Christmas tree farm. While Rick and his family moved to the Midwest town twenty-two years ago, Rick’s office still attests to his Texas roots. A large frame cluttered with bluebonnets sits

If you visit the Southern California Coast, you might run into Noel (ThM, 1980) and Denise Enete and their contagious joy. Married for fifty-three years with four children and four grandchildren, Noel and Denise gather the Enete clan monthly for birthdays and other festivities. Their house serves as home base for family life and ministry;

Donald W. Smith (ThM, 1993) has served as a U.S. Army chaplain for twenty-two years. In addition to his active and reserve military service, Donald has experience in hospital chaplaincy and currently serves as an on-call hospital chaplain in Kentucky. He and his wife, Penelope, have been married for twenty-nine years, and they both look

Daniel J. Estes (ThM, 1978) serves as a Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Cedarville University. Equipped with degrees from Cedarville University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and the University of Cambridge, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share with his students. Teaching, however, goes far beyond the dispersal of facts. Through Dan’s role as a

Carlton Harris (ThM, 1983) currently serves as the Acting President of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA). If you visit his office, you will find his study wallpapered with books—every academic seminarian’s dream. Better than the books, you will find Carlton sitting at his desk, his smile cozy, and his words warm and deliberate.

Ministry leaders pour themselves out for others. They nurture their churches and their larger communities while building up the Kingdom. But who pours into the ministry leaders? Who shepherds the shepherds? That question turned personal for Mike (DMin, 2011) and Lori McDaniel in 2020. With decades of church planting, pastoral ministry, and global missions under

When children connect the dots, zigzagging their markers from point to point, they follow ever-increasing numbers to reveal hidden images. Sometimes the dots connect to make shapes. Sometimes, more intricate masterpieces like a bumblebee or a daisy appear. The dots are always on the page, but someone needs to connect them to expose the beauty.

J. Carl (Carl) Laney (ThD, 1978) taught biblical literature for forty years at Western Seminary before retiring in 2018. He preferred to think of retirement as repositioning for his next ministry phase, and it has truly proved to be the next iteration of his ministry. Carl spends his mornings studying, reading, and writing and the

Daniel Moore (DMin, 2016) serves as the solo pastor at a midsized church in rural Pennsylvania. God has allowed Daniel to preach at that same church for twenty-one years. With God’s blessing, Daniel hopes to spend another twenty-one years preaching and building deep, lasting relationships with the people God has placed under his care. Daniel,