General Assembly 2009 special presenters

Worship Leader | C. Randall Bradley

Bradley is deeply committed to music ministry, having served as a minister of music since 1978 and teacher of church musicians since 1989.  He is the Ben H. Williams Professor of Music, Professor of Church Music and Director of the Church Music Program and the Center for Christian Music Studies at Baylor University where he is a member of the undergraduate and graduate faculties and directs the Baylor University Men's Choir.  He is currently minister of music at Calvary Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, where he has served since 2001.  His third revision of the book Christian Worship: Its Theology and Practice is widely used as a text in worship classes in colleges and seminaries, as is his book From Postlude to Prelude: Music Ministry’s Other Six Days (2004).  Randall is married to Brenda, and they have two children, Hannah and Isaac.

 

Bible Study Leader | Dorisanne Cooper

Rev. Dorisanne Cooper is the Senior Pastor of Lake Shore Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, where she has served since 2002. She graduated from Baylor University in 1993 with a B.A. in Psychology and German, and a minor in Mathematics.  While attending Princeton Theological Seminary, where she graduated in 1996, she received the Jagow Preaching award.  She served as Associate Pastor of College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C. from 1996-2002. In Waco, she has served on various local and national committees through the Waco Regional Baptist Network and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. She has also written curriculum for youth and children’s church education classes. She is married to David, and they have a son, Adam.