FORT WORTH, Texas — Cal Guy, one of Southern Baptists’ most influential missions professors and a longtime faculty member at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, died July 25 from natural causes. He was 88.
He was born April 22, 1917, in Jackson, Tenn. He received a bachelor’s degree from Jackson’s Union University, and his master’s of theology and a doctorate degree from Southwestern Seminary.
He served as pastor to several churches in Tennessee and Texas while in college and seminary.
Guy joined the faculty of Southwestern as a member of the missions department in 1946. Throughout his tenure at Southwestern, he served as interim pastor to churches in Texas and Oklahoma and international churches in Jurbise, Belgium, and Paris.
He contributed a regular column to The Baptist Standard during the 1960s. He was co-author of a book titled “Church Growth and Christian Mission,” published by Harper and Row in 1965.
In 1980, Southwestern launched its World Mission/Church Growth Center, now called the World Mission Center. Guy was named the center’s founding director during its first year of operation.
After his retirement in 1982, he continued to teach at Southwestern, Criswell College in Dallas and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. His wife, Terrye, died in 1994.
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