TELEWORSHIP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Chief Scientist

Bill Anderton is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist of TeleWorship Corporation and the founder of TransformingTheChurch.org. TransformingTheChurch.org's technical architecture is Bill's design and implementation, including its public website, Connected Community, Virtual Classrooms and streaming media content. The systems include state-of-the-art subsystems for domain name services (DNS), content management systems (CMS) and content delivery network (CDN). Our Dynamic Course Catalog and its secure Registrar and Bursar systems are of his design. He also designed our video workflow, video mastering standards and video encoding profiles. He is the Producer/Director of all of our videos and courseware and functions as the webmaster of our website. Bill is a career technologist and information scientist. Bill has an extensive professional career leading both advanced technology teams building and operating infrastructure as well as creative teams creating large amounts of the high-quality content provided by the technical infrastructure. Formerly, Chief Scientist and Senior Fellow of BroadbandNOW he is a nationally-known expert in broadband and fiber-optic communications networks integrated with high-speed information stores and optimized peering. In 1995, he conducted the demonstration of cable-modem networks for the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Federal Communications Commission. Bill's demonstration, accompanying testimony and consultancy were in support of "The Telecommunications Act of 1996," the law that deregulated telecommunications in the United States and began the communications revolution. After the passage of the law, he designed and rolled-out the broadband cable modem systems of one of the Top-10 MSOs (6-million homes passed in 29 states). He also built the country's largest onsite service provider (OSP). The OSP concept was invented by Bill from four years of personal research titled Codename CityNet for "islands of specialized real estate" such as master planned communities, multi-family housing and multi-use commercial properties. At BroadbandNOW, Bill was an investment partner with Microsoft, Nortel, Lucent, Liberty Media and GE Capital that collectively invested over $100-million into the $400-million venture. Earlier, Bill was Vice President of Development and Director of Special Projects for Computer Support Corporation, a leading computer graphics software developer. As an independent technology consultant, he worked with the Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, and other federal agencies. Bill then became a Principal Consultant for Harvard Consulting. Bill was Chief Technology Officer of Space Industries Telecommunications and Electronics Corporation (SITEC), a division of Space Industries International. SITEC designed distance learning systems for National Technical University (NTU), a consortium of 50 tier-1 universities such as the University of Illinois, Georgia Tech, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, North Carolina State University, Purdue University, University of Maryland, Southern Methodist University and others. The project was funded by the Department of Defense and participating major US corporations. NTU delivered distance learning education in the applied sciences and engineering for accredited advanced degrees for workers in major aerospace and technology companies as well as in US government agencies. NTU supplied the platform, but the curricula were supplied by one of the participating universities, and the degrees were awarded by one of the host universities. Arthur C. Clarke, who not only envisioned communication satellite themselves but also using satellites for teaching, gave NTU's commencement address to the first six recipients of master's degrees.

Job Titles:

• President and Strategic Coordinator With the Columbia Partnership

George Bullard serves as President and Strategic Coordinator with The Columbia Partnership [TCP]. TCP is a community of Christian leaders seeking to transform the capacity of the North American Church to pursue and sustain vital Christ-centered ministry. Additionally, George serves as General Secretary [executive director] of the North American Baptist Fellowship of the Baptist World Alliance. In this role he relates to several dozen Baptist conventions, unions, and other organizations throughout North America. George's vision is to use his spiritual and strategic giftedness to empower congregations and congregational champions to fulfill their vision for Kingdom growth. In Baptist denominational service George was one of the organizational architects during the 1970's of the North American emphasis on congregational redevelopment known as PACT, was the primary organizational architect during the early 1980's of the Mega Focus Cities effort that addressed the Great Commission and Great Commandment challenges in the 50 largest megalopolitan areas of the United States, was the primary organizational architect during the early 1990's of the first round of the Empowering Kingdom Growth emphasis of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, was the primary architect of the Pursuing Vital Ministry emphasis of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in 2001, and has served various roles with the Baptist World Alliance. George has consulted with hundreds congregations and with local, regional and national/international denominational organizations among various Baptist groups. Since 1996 George's ministry has been expanded to include work with denominational families throughout North America. Among them are Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian (Disciples of Christ), Christian and Missionary Alliance, Christian Reformed, Church of God, Episcopal, Evangelical Covenant, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal Holiness, Presbyterian, Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, Wesleyan, and others. George is widely recognized as an advisor to pastors and denominational leaders, a futurist, a strategic planning expert, a group process facilitator, a church growth strategist, an authority in conflict management, and a writer. He has extensively developed a life cycle model for congregations, which helps congregational leaders know what types of assistance they may need to best facilitate growth. Strategic planning, church growth, and conflict mediation consultations and training have been a major part of George's ministry during the past 35 years. He has provided in-depth consultation services to more than 700 congregations and denominational organizations. He has led or assisted in training more than 1500 denominational workers in strategic planning, church growth, and conflict management consultation skills. In 2001 George moved from his current home in Columbia, SC to Hickory, NC to help NC Baptists begin a new leadership center called Hollifield Leadership Center. His goal was to establish a 21 st century approach to leadership development, and to move Hollifield to be self-supporting from the end of 2006. Both of these goals have been accomplished. Two significant achievements were the acquiring of a Lilly Endowment grant for Sustaining Pastoral Excellence, and the beginning of what has become an excellent certification process in Christian leadership coaching that is now expanding to be nationwide. George returned to Columbia during 2006 to continue developing the work and ministry of The Columbia Partnership which had been established in 2005. Today 12 Ministry Colleagues are connected with TCP.

Job Titles:

• Coach With International Coach Federation
• Editor of Twentieth - Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics

Larry McSwain serves as a ministry coach with International Coach Federation training and consults with congregations through the Center for Congregational Health at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His consulting focus is on planning, staff configurations, and staff compensation/evaluation. Larry served as Professor of Leadership at the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he held the Watkins Christian Foundation Endowed Chair in Ministry and served as Associate Dean for Doctor of Ministry Studies. He taught Christian Ethics, Leadership, Change and Conflict in the Church, and Capstone courses from 2003 until 2012 when retired from fulltime teaching. He continues to teach at McAfee as an adjunct professor. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological where he received the Doctor of Sacred Theology degree. He taught at Southern Seminary twenty-three years as Professor of Church and Community and was Dean of the School of Theology and Provost of the seminary. From 1993-2000, he was President of Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. Larry is editor of Twentieth-Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics, author of Loving Beyond Your Theology: The Life and Ministry of Jimmy Raymond Allen; co-author of four books and author of numerous articles and research reports. His latest publication is The Calling of Congregational Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing Ministry, released by Chalice Press in Kindle and book form. Larry loves to fish, play with grandchildren, work in the yard, teach senior adult men in church school at Northside Drive Baptist Church, and serves as president of his neighborhood condominium association where he attempts to practice his skills of collaboration and negotiation! He is married to Rebecca Sue, and they have two children, five grandchildren and a Westie named Gracie. Sue is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, and she completed accounting classes at the University of Louisville. She is a retired Certified Public Accountant, a deacon at Northside Drive Baptist Church and loves to arrange flowers, keep up with her deacon families, play with grandchildren and take hand-building classes in clay. She served as a volunteer at St. Joseph Hospital in Atlanta for eight years.

Lennox has been involved with multi media production for over 25 years, he has a degree in Mass Communications and a diploma in Radio and Television production. He currently works as the Audio Visual Director at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre in Toronto where he is involved in the creation of a wide variety of educational, training and research oriented content for the mental health community. Lennox's has been committed to using his skills in media production to help grow the kingdom of God, over the years he has worked on a variety of projects for missions, ministries and individuals within the church community. All of this experience has led him to the creation of Thank God it's Monday, a project that he began in the fall of 2009. TGIM is a once a week video devotional that aims to bring an encouraging and thoughtful online message that has at it's heart the word of God. TGIM is a ministry that combines, cinematography, photography, animation, and musical performances into short videos that are shared via social media. TGIM is approaching it's 200th installment shortly, the TGIM team is looking forward to sharing their videos with TransformingThe Church.org. If you have any ideas for a TGIM segment please contact Lennox @ tgimvideos@gmail.com.