Contact Information

Courses

Schedule

Information about OBU's Church Music Department

Recommended Resources

 

 

Rob L. Hewell

Chair, Department of Church Music
Associate Professor, Music Division / School of Fine Arts

 

Education      

  
  
D.Min.   San Francisco Theological Seminary
                     
San Anselmo, CA     [SFTS]

    M.C.M.  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
                     
Fort Worth, TX     [SWBTS]     

    B.M.E.   Midwestern State University
                     
Wichita Falls, TX     [MSU]

 


Affiliations

          American Association of University Professors
          Evangelical Theological Society
          Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
          American Guild of English Handbell Ringers
          American Choral Director’s Association
          Baptist Church Music Conference
                  
(Past President, 1998-1999)
          Pi Kappa Lambda


 

Experience

Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC 1993-2001)
          Leadership & Worship Team Leader
          Former director of the Arkansas MasterSingers


Interim Music Minister at more than fifteen congregations in Arkansas (1993-present)

Full-time Music Minister/Worship Pastor (1978-1993)
First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana
First Baptist Church, Mulvane, Kansas
Westside Church, Omaha, Nebraska
Sharon Baptist Church, Wichita, Kansas

Author of more than eighty articles and book reviews on worship, leadership, and music ministry in a variety of periodicals including Choral Journal, The Church Musician, The Church Musician Today, Creator Magazine, Christianity Today, Sacred Music News and Reviews, and Strategies for Today’s Leader.

 

          Current book reviews for Arkansas Baptist News

 

Additional Teaching/Leadership Experience
Workshop Leader and Guest Teacher

          New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
          Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
          Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
          Glorieta and Ridgecrest Conference centers.
Experience as a congregational conflict mediator

Training: interim pastor, career assessment consultant.

North American Mission Service Award
John & Jewel Abernathy Mission Fellow
First Baptist Church of Hot Springs, Arkansas (2001).

 

 

Personal Info

Rob Hewell is married to Cyndy, who is a public school elementary music teacher in Bryant. They have two daughters and one grandson.

Contact

Dr. Rob L. Hewell

OBU Box 3745
410 Ouachita St.
Arkadelphia, AR 71998

phone 870.245.5133
fax 870.245.5274

email hewellr@obu.edu

Curriculum vitae

 

Courses
(Links for current semester)

The Worshiping Church

Congregational Song

Foundations for Ministry through Music

Field Experience

Praise Singers

Handbell Ringers

Fine Arts: Music

Senior Seminar

 

Schedule

Spring 2008

 

Information regarding the Department of Church Music

Bachelor of Music in Church Music degree
         
Overview
            Year-by-Year

COURSES in OBU's Department of Church Music

Mission Statement, Goals and Objectives

 

Resources

Recommended Reading

Recommended Links

 

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